Police are investigating after sewing needles were found in a banana bought from an Asda store.

They were alerted after a ten-year-old boy took a bite of the fruit.

His mum posted on Facebook: “Just to make everyone aware when buying bananas from Asda Grangemouth, please check them.”

“These were found in each of ours..one last night and today my wee boy bit into one and found another.

“Please be careful if you or your wee ones eat bananas.”

The supermarket giant apologised and said it was launching its own investigation.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Officers have been made aware a banana, bought from a store in Grangemouth, has been found with a sewing needle in it.

“Officers are liaising with the store. No-one was injured and enquiries are ongoing.”

In a statement, Asda said:“We take matters of food safety extremely seriously and are at a loss to understand how this could have happened.

"But we would like to assure all customers that as soon as we were made aware of the allegation we launched a full investigation.

"Whilst we haven’t received any other complaints of this nature and there are no signs of any defects to the bananas in our Grangemouth store.

"We would like to apologise for any concern caused and thank the customer for bringing the product back so we can investigate what has happened here.”