A resident of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, reported on social media this Friday that she found a cockroach embedded inside a bread purchased from a street vendor.
The woman reported that she made the unpleasant discovery when she was about to slice the bread for toasting.
"I would like the people who make bread to be more conscious when doing so, to maintain hygiene and caution," wrote the user Martha V on her Facebook.
The complainant noted that, in her experience, this is not an isolated case. "It's common to find bread with a hair, a stone, a bug... quite expensive for what we have to pay," she stated.
In the comments, he specified that the product was purchased from a street baker in the Avilan municipality of Morón, without any health inspections.
"I have such a huge disgust that I haven't gotten over it," admitted the author of the post.
The case sparked numerous reactions among users who commented on the complaint. "They can't even eat a piece of bread in peace," wrote one person, while another questioned the prices and quality of the product.
"I stopped buying bread a while ago due to the outrageous prices and the appearance of some bakers. But this has gone too far," he pointed out.
Other comments expanded the criticism of the overall situation regarding the services and products available to consumers. "No sector is functioning here; after so many years of shoddy work, it will take time for Cubans to have discipline and awareness," stated one user. "We are lost and out of options," added another person.
"In order for this country to return to being more or less like it was before, it will take a lot—truly a lot—of work; social indiscipline is at another level," concluded one of the people who commented on Morón's post.
In February 2024, a mother from Havana found cockroach remains in the bread from the bodega in Mazorra and alerted other mothers to check the product before giving it to their children.
In April 2025, the production director of the Provincial Food Company of Matanzas publicly acknowledged that the bread "smells bad, like insects, like cockroaches", although he attributed the odor to wheat stored in silos with moisture, not to direct contamination.
What sets the finding in Morón apart is that the insect is physically inside the product, which was also purchased in the informal market, where there is no mechanism for health supervision.
The decline in the quality of bread occurs alongside a structural supply crisis. In June, only one of the six contracted ships carrying wheat flour had arrived in Cuba, and the only operational mill, located in Cienfuegos, produced 250 tons daily compared to the required 700 tons.
The official weight of the standardized bread was reduced from 80 to 60 grams as of September 2024, and in some provinces, it dropped to as low as 40 grams.
Starting in July, the price of a 400-gram loaf of bread in Havana rose from 240 to 500 pesos, an increase of 108%.
A few days ago, a Cuban identified as Roberto D J Morales expressed his outrage regarding the terrible quality of the regulated bread he receives. He showed the camera a loaf of bread that appeared deplorable, questioning whether this product is fit for human consumption.
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