The Reason Wegmans' Roasted Garlic Hummus Was Just Recalled

Do you have a Wegmans store near you? With about 100 locations across just six East Coast states, this is a smaller supermarket chain that's known to inspire fierce devotion in its shoppers. Customers praise stores' wide selection of fresh produce, its large bulk sections, its curated cheeses, and its giant olive bars packed with pickled and preserved items. Wegmans says that its stores are designed to "look and feel like a European open-air market," and its strategies seem to be working: Since 2006, shoppers participating in Consumer Reports' annual evaluations of supermarket chains have consistently ranked Wegmans as their favorite.

Like many grocery stores these days, Wegmans offers a large variety of prepared foods alongside its produce, dairy, and meat. As at any supermarket, this includes packaged hummus, whose popularity hasn't waned and whose market value is expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2028, according to GlobeNewswire. But recently, Wegmans had to recall its house brand of Roasted Garlic hummus — and if you've bought some recently, you'll want to find out why.