A granola marketed to nursing mothers has been pulled from the national market because it contains an imported ingredient tied to four separate Salmonella outbreak investigations since 2025. The Hampton Grocers, Inc. of Montauk, New York, recalled 8-ounce pouches of Lacnola Lactation Granola after an ingredient supplier reported that one of its products had tested positive for Salmonella. That product contains organic moringa powder, which is also used in the granola.
The recall was published by the FDA on August 14, weeks after federal agencies declared the moringa outbreak investigations closed. No illnesses have been linked to the granola. What makes this recall different from the supplement recalls that preceded it is who buys the product and who else may be exposed in the same household.
The granola was sold nationwide through the company's own website and other online retailers, including Amazon, between October 21, 2025, and August 12, 2026. That is nearly ten months of distribution, and the affected lots carry expiration dates running to February 2027, which means unopened pouches are almost certainly still sitting in kitchen cabinets right now.
Two Lot Codes to Check on the Pink Pouch
The recalled product comes in a pink 8-ounce stand-up pouch with UPC 850035324554. Consumers should check the upper-left side of the back of the package, where the lot code and expiration date are printed in black ink. The affected lots are HGLC-102125, expiring October 21, 2026, and HGLC-021326, expiring February 13, 2027.
Anyone holding either lot should dispose of the product rather than eat it, and contact the place of purchase for a full refund, according to the company announcement posted by the FDA. Production has been suspended while the company and the agency investigate the source.
Do not feed it to anyone else in the house. That instruction matters more than usual here, because a product bought by a postpartum parent tends to sit on a counter where toddlers and other family members reach for it. Wash your hands and any bowl, scoop, or container the granola touched with hot, soapy water, since Salmonella can survive on dry surfaces and be transferred by hand.
An Ingredient That Keeps Reappearing
Salmonella contamination in imported moringa leaf powder has been traced through a long chain of products. MedicalDaily reported earlier this month that the moringa outbreak investigations were declared over while recalled supplements remained on shelves with expiration dates as late as 2028. The CDC has stated that since 2025, it has investigated four outbreaks associated with contaminated moringa products, with moringa leaf powder as the common thread across most of them.
The largest of those investigations closed on July 22, with a total of 131 people infected across 38 states and 36 of them hospitalized, and no deaths, according to reporting on the closure. The implicated leaf powder was imported from India and sold under several brands. A separate MOGO capsule investigation closed days earlier, reporting 34 illnesses across 14 states. Along the way, the ingredient pulled down super greens powders and capsule supplements from multiple brands, some of which were recalled and then expanded more than once.
Closing an outbreak investigation clears a case count. It does not clarify an ingredient, and this recall demonstrates the gap. The granola is a food product rather than a dietary supplement, which means moringa has moved from the supplement aisle to everyday groceries.
Postpartum Households Face a Different Calculation
Salmonella causes fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, usually appearing 6 hours to 6 days after eating contaminated food. Most healthy adults recover within a week without treatment.
Pregnant and postpartum women appear on public health lists of people at higher risk, and the same is true for infants. That does not mean a nursing parent who ate this granola will pass Salmonella through breast milk, as this is not a documented route of transmission for this bacterium. The realistic household risks are direct: a parent becoming acutely ill while caring for a newborn, and cross-contamination from hands, bowls, and counters to an infant or older sibling.
In rare cases, Salmonella enters the bloodstream and produces more severe illness, including infected aneurysms, endocarditis, and arthritis. Young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems face the highest risk of those outcomes.
A new parent who becomes sick with fever and diarrhea should contact a clinician rather than waiting it out, both because dehydration compounds quickly during the postpartum period and because someone caring for an infant around the clock has little margin for a week of illness. Anyone whose baby develops a fever, unusual sleepiness, poor feeding, or bloody stool should seek medical care promptly.
Steps Worth Taking This Week
Check the pouch before anything else. If a household has one of the two lot codes, discard it and wash any container or scoop it touched with hot soapy water. Refunds run through the place of purchase, which for many buyers means an Amazon order history rather than a store receipt.
Anyone who became ill after eating this granola should see a clinician and specifically request a stool culture. Without that culture, an illness will never be linked to the product, and the case will not appear in any federal count. Report the illness to a state or local health department as well. Keeping the packaging and the purchase record makes that conversation far easier, and the CDC has repeatedly urged consumers to check their homes for recalled moringa products because they carry long shelf lives.
This recall does not require anyone to stop breastfeeding, change a lactation plan, or discard other foods. Foods and supplements marketed to support milk supply are not reviewed by the FDA for effectiveness before sale, and no evidence connects this recall to any effect on milk supply.
Several questions remain open. Investigators have not identified where in the supply chain the contamination occurred; no illnesses have yet been tied to this product; and the FDA has not said whether other foods made with the same moringa lot will be added. Given the pattern since 2025, additional recalls involving this ingredient would not be surprising. MedicalDaily will update this report if the recall expands.
Key Questions Answered
Which product is recalled? Lacnola Lactation Granola in 8-ounce pink stand-up pouches, UPC 850035324554, lot codes HGLC-102125 and HGLC-021326, with expiration dates of October 21, 2026, and February 13, 2027.
Has anyone gotten sick from it? No illnesses had been reported at the time the recall was issued. The recall was triggered by a supplier's positive test for the same moringa ingredient in a product, not by an outbreak.
Can Salmonella pass to a baby through breast milk? That is not a documented route of transmission for Salmonella. The realistic household risks are a caregiver becoming seriously ill and cross-contamination from hands and surfaces to an infant.
Where was it sold? Nationwide through the company website and online retailers, including Amazon, between October 21, 2025, and August 12, 2026.
What should someone who ate it and got sick do? See a clinician and ask specifically for a stool culture, then report the illness to a state or local health department. Keep the packaging and the purchase record.
Does this mean anyone should stop breastfeeding? No. Nothing in the recall relates to milk supply or to breastfeeding itself, and no evidence connects the product to any effect on lactation.
Are other moringa products still a concern? Recalled moringa supplements from earlier this year carry expiration dates as late as 2028 and may still be in homes. Federal agencies closed those outbreak investigations without clearing the ingredient itself.
