The Hampton Grocers, Inc. of Montauk, New York is recalling its 8-ounce packages of Lacnola Lactation Granola because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. FDA published the company announcement on August 14, 2026.
The granola comes in a pink 8-ounce stand-up pouch, UPC 850035324554. Two lots are covered: HGLC-102125, with an expiration date of 21OCT2026, and HGLC-021326, with an expiration date of 13FEB2027. The lot code and expiration date are printed in black ink on the back of the bag, upper left. It was sold nationwide by mail order through thehamptongrocers.com and through other online retailers, including Amazon, between October 21, 2025 and August 12, 2026. The company says no illnesses have been reported to date, that production has been suspended, and that consumers should throw the product out and go back to the place of purchase for a refund.
Here is the sentence that matters. The company learned of the problem when an ingredient supplier told it that a sample of one of the supplier’s products had tested positive for Salmonella. The shared ingredient is organic moringa powder — the same ingredient that has now produced four CDC-investigated Salmonella outbreaks since 2025.
That record is not ancient history. The largest of those investigations closed on July 22, 2026 with 131 people infected across 38 states and 36 hospitalized, with onsets running from August 22, 2025 to June 14, 2026. A second investigation closed five days earlier with 34 sick in 14 states. Along the way the ingredient pulled down Live it Up Super Greens, Why Not Natural capsules, TNVitamins and Doctor’s Pride capsules, Mogo capsules, Member’s Mark Super Greens, Food to Live powders and Africa Imports moringa leaf powder. In June, Total Nutrition recalled two more products after its own supplier initiated a recall of the raw organic moringa. Closing an outbreak investigation clears a case count. It does not clear an ingredient, and today’s recall is the proof.
What separates this one is who buys it. Lactation granola is marketed to women who have just given birth and are nursing. Pregnant and postpartum women are already on every list of people at higher risk from Salmonella, and in this ingredient the risk is not theoretical. FDA’s May 2026 moringa advisory reports that one woman ate moringa capsules while breastfeeding and her infant was sick with the outbreak strain. A product formulated and sold for exactly that consumer, containing exactly that ingredient, sat in distribution for nearly ten months.
Ten months is the other problem. Granola is shelf-stable and the recalled lots do not expire until October 2026 and February 2027. A pouch bought last November is not spoiled, does not smell, and is sitting in a kitchen cabinet next to the coffee. That is the same trap the moringa supplement recalls hit — long shelf life, quiet product, no reason for anyone to look.
Two things should happen now. First, the supplier should be named. The public announcement identifies the ingredient but not the company that sold it, and a bulk ingredient sold to one small granola maker in Montauk was almost certainly sold to others. Every downstream manufacturer that bought from that lot needs to know today, and so does every consumer trying to figure out whether the tub in her pantry came from the same source. Second, this recall is unusually easy to communicate. The product moved by mail order and through Amazon, which means the company and the platform have names, emails and shipping addresses for essentially every purchaser. Telling people to “contact the place of purchase for a full refund” is not notice. Emailing every buyer is notice, and there is no technical reason it cannot be done this weekend. The consumer line the company gave — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday through Thursday — is not going to reach a new mother on a Friday night.
“No illnesses reported to date” should be read for what it is worth. Salmonella illnesses get counted when someone is sick enough to see a doctor, the doctor orders a stool culture, the lab isolates the organism, and the isolate is sequenced into PulseNet. Exhausted parents with a sick stomach and a newborn in the house rarely make it through that gauntlet. A count of zero this early in a recall is a statement about testing, not about safety.
If you bought Lacnola Lactation Granola, check the back of the bag for lot HGLC-102125 or HGLC-021326, throw it out, and do not feed it to anyone. If you or your baby became ill after eating it, see a doctor and ask for a stool culture — without that culture the illness will never be connected to this product. More on Salmonella, its symptoms and its long-term consequences is available here.
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