DETROIT (NEWSnet/AP) — A woman in suburban Detroit said she got a scare when she discovered a life frog in a container of spinach she had just bought at a grocery store.

The Southfield woman said she bought the sealed Earthbound Farm spinach package earlier this week from a Meijer store, a local television station reported. When she got home, her daughter found a live frog in the container and screamed.

“It was alive and moving,” the woman said. “Just thank God I didn't eat the frog.”

She immediately returned the package and the frog to the store. Workers there released the frog and gave her a refund.

A spokesperson with the Michigan Department of Agricultural and Rural Development told the Detroit Free Press that no one had filed any complaints about the incident.

Officials with Taylor Farms, which owns Earthbound Farm, apologized in a statement and promised to continue to provide “the freshest, finest quality veggies for consumers.”

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