The cultural vanguard at TikTok have embraced a new trend that consists entirely of freezing some honey, eating it on camera, then most likely spending the rest of the day annihilating a bathroom. Having learned very little from years spent downing Tide Pods and nutmeg on the internet, the extremely online have decided to start chewing on frozen honey from water bottles to take part in a new challenge.

A lot of people are trying this, with almost 630 million people having used the frozen honey hashtag on TikTok at the time of writing. One TikToker took the trend to new extremes, also trying it with other items such as corn syrup. While some people commented that the unusual trend’s results looked pretty yummy, others branded it as ‘revolting’ looking. It’s unknown where the trend originated from and why it’s become a thing, but a dietician has warned that eating so much sugar can be extremely bad for you. Per 100g of honey, there’s approximately 82g of sugar.

Apparently around one in three people suffer from something known as dietary fructose intolerance, meaning the cells in the intestines don’t absorb fructose, also known as fruit sugar, the way they should, causing gastrointestinal distress. Kirkpatrick warned that those with this condition could end up causing ‘awful diarrhoea, stomach pain and things like that because they’re not breaking it down correctly’ if they take part in the so-called frozen honey challenge.

News Source : NBC News