A labelling blunder has forced KitKat to urge customers to throw away one of its products.

People are being warned that one of the batches of the KitKat Peanut Butter Bites was wrongly packaged as KitKat Original Milk Chocolate Bites Pouch Bag.

It means snackers were not warned that the product contains nuts and peanuts, therefore posing a serious health risk to anyone with a nut allergy.

As a result, Nestle has recalled some of the packets and is urging customers to dispose of the treats with the batch code 70720457V2 and a best before date of December 2017.

A statement posted on the Chartered Trading Standards Institute website said: "If you have bought the above product and have an allergy to nuts and/or peanuts do not eat it.

"Instead dispose of the contents, and send the empty pack with your name and address for a full refund to: KITKAT Bites Recall, Freepost Consumer Services, Nestle UK Ltd, York."