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In recent days freezing honey in a bottle, squeezing it and eating it has become a popular trend on TikTok with the hashtag #FrozenHoney . Although sweetening your food with a little honey would not generally pose a problem for your health, eating several bites of frozen honey could cause you stomach upset and other negative effects.
Many of the people who have joined the frozen honey challenge believe that the challenge can be fun and taste good if you like honey. The result of freezing honey is a chewy bite that elicits an ASMR response before melting in the mouth.
The frozen honey trend would emerge among YouTube ASMR content creators, they used frozen honey to generate satisfying noises for their followers while eating it .
In the challenges also it is common to see that honey is mixed with corn syrup to obtain a thinner consistency, as well as colorants or powdered drinks to make the appearance of chewy honey more attractive.
Some users on TikTok who have followed the honey challenge felt sick and with diarrhea . Avery Cyrus, a TikTok influencer with 6.5 million followers, spoke about her experience with frozen honey in a video called “Brb I have to go get my stomach pumped” .
@ averycyrus Brb gotta go get my stomach pumped 🤪
♬ original sound – Avery
Eating frozen honey can leave you beyond a cloying sweet taste in your mouth. Experts do not recommend practicing the #FrozenHoney challenge.
Stomach ache
Due to its fructose content, when consuming a quarter of the frozen honey from a typical water bottle, you may experience bloating stomach cramps or diarrhea, states in Every Day Health nutritionist Jackie Newgent and author of The Clean & Simple Diabetes Cookbook.
Approximately 1 in 3 people has an intolerance to fructose in the diet, also called fructose malabsorption, which means the cells in the intestines don’t absorb fructose the way they should, causing gastrointestinal upset, Kristin Kirkpatrick, a dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic, told NBC.
Too much sugar
The first The downside is the large amount of sugar. Eating a fifth or more of a bottle is too much. Only one serving of honey contains 17 g of sugar, which would equal 4 teaspoons of sugar, 60 calories.
Blood glucose increase
It is clear that this trend should be avoided by people with prediabetes or diabetes. But also can affect glucose levels in healthy people. “At the very least, it can cause headaches due to a possible increase in blood glucose in otherwise healthy people, ”says nutritionist Newgent.
Inflammation
Consuming a lot of added sugar favors weight gain and according to the American Association of the Heart (AHA) is also linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation in the body and increased risk of heart disease.
The AHA suggests an added sugar limit of approximately 6 teaspoons or 24 grams of sugar per day for women and no more than 9 teaspoons or 36 grams of sugar for men.
Damage to teeth
If it becomes a constant practice, frequently eating frozen honey can damage teeth . Eating sugar is feeding the beast; bacteria in the mouth feed on sugar, producing acids that can slowly dissolve tooth enamel and lead to cavities.
The American Dental Association (ADA) notes that sticky sugary foods can be even more harmful as they tend to to stay on teeth longer than other types of food.
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