Posts claiming Maggi is selling beef-flavoured noodles in India is going viral on social media and is being widely shared.
The posts also have images of products with “Beef flavour” written on it. The claim, however, is false. Beef flavoured Maggi is not sold in India but in countries.
“Friends, now Maggi is selling products with beef in it. A few days back Maggi was sold with lead and now this. We have to teach these foreign companies a lesson. Embrace Indian made products and boycott the foreign ones,” reads the translated caption of a tweet. Along with that, the Twitter user also shared four images of different Maggi products with the words “Beef flavour” caption on them.
दोस्तों …अब मैगी वालों ने हमारे गौ माता के मांस (Beef) का भी समान बेंच रहें हैं।
हाल ही में कुछ दिन पहले #Maggi वाले हम हिंदुस्तानियों को शीशा मिला कर मैगी नूडल्स खिलाते थे, ये विदेशी कंपनीयों को हमें सबक सिखाना होगा।
इस होली स्वदेशी अपनाओ विदेशी भगाओ।
#मैगी_का_बहिष्कार_करो pic.twitter.com/GlPSc7vJxC— Karunesh Shukla करुणेश शुक्ला (@karuneshshukla8) March 10, 2020
FACT CHECK:
Maggi is manufactured and sold by Nestlé. The company replied from their official Twitter handle on the post and debunked the claim. “Hi, we would like to inform you that MAGGI Noodles manufactured and sold by Nestlé India does not contain beef or any form of beef flavour,” they wrote.
Check out the post:
This is just so gross @NestleIndia Disgusting to the core https://t.co/WXMx5QYnXK
— Srish (@MsChronology) March 10, 2020
For the uninitiated, Nestle sells the beef-flavoured Maggi products in Australia and New Zealand. The official Maggi websites of both countries show the same.
Maggi products available in India are chicken flavoured. There’s no other non-vegetarian option sold.
Final verdict:
So, the claim that Maggi is selling beef-flavoured products in India is false. Also, the images are not of products sold in India.
