A Costco shopper recently uncovered a surprising truth about Babybel cheese, realizing that the tiny red wheels sold at the wholesale giant weren’t quite the same as the ones you’d find at your regular grocery store. This discovery quickly spiraled into a much bigger conversation online, revealing a wider trend among many popular packaged products at Costco.
It began when Reddit user u/ZestyCuke noticed their Babybel cheese from Costco tasted a little off, and decided to get scientific. They grabbed a kitchen scale and weighed a Babybel from Costco against one from Kroger, a standard grocery store, to find a significant weight difference. The Costco Babybel weighed in at 23.1 grams, while the Kroger version was a slightly heftier 24.4 grams.
