#Frozenhoney: the dangerous TikTok challenge based on consuming frozen honey

Social network TIC Tac it’s a world of new viral content every day. Trends and challenges are constantly being created, commonly referred to by adolescents as “challenges”. A lot of them tend to be funny and even cute. Videos of animals or babies are shared by thousands of people.

What is dangerous is when the “challenge” is usually to drive with your eyes closed or to consume a food of strange origin. One of the latest trends to appear on the platform of Chinese origin is eating frozen honey, linked to the hashtag #frozenhoneychallenge O #frozenhoney.

Although its origin is not well known, a press article by the news channel NBC, says it probably came to TikTok after it was “a staple of YouTube channels dedicated to autonomic sensory meridian response, also known as ASMR, in which content creators eat frozen honey to create sounds that some people find relaxing “.

What is wrong with eating frozen honey?

Kristin kirkpatrick, nutritionist at the Cleveland Clinic, explained to NBC News: “Honey is great. Sweetening in small amounts is really having a healthy relationship with food, but using it to get a lot of followers and a lot of attention, and consuming it in excess amounts is insane.

The detriment of this issue is that adolescents do not consume it in liquid form, on toast for example. What influencers are looking for TIC Tac is to freeze honey and eat it in solid form. Plus, they mix it with dyes or other ingredients, just to make it more eye-catching on the social network.

According to the press release of NBC, there are people who “They felt sick or ran to the toilet with diarrhea” minutes after the test. The reason is that they consume large amounts of sugar in a very short period of time. Other symptoms were “stomach cramps, bloating and other side effects”. One of them is the fear “that the sticky substance could damage people’s teeth, cause cavities and tear out fillings.”

Honey is also very harmful to the teeth.

The doctor Jorge Ferrus, periodontist, implantologist and co-founder of Ferrus & Bratos explained to Business Insider Spain the danger of this trend for oral health: “From a dental and oral point of view, I must warn that excessive consumption and large amounts of honey can be very harmful to oral health”. And to add: “honey is a concentrated aqueous solution of sugars and excessive consumption can lead to the appearance of cavities and the acceleration of said bacterial disease of the teeth”.