A daughter has given people a glimpse into her mum's cupboard filled with two-year-old McDonald's, takeaway pizzas and pastries. TikTok user @elifgkandemir showed off her mother's grim culinary collection in a short video posted to the social media site, the Sun reports.
The footage shows more than 30 plastic boxes stacked neatly into a kitchen cupboard and filled with all manner of past their sell-by date foods. Among the stored snack haul are McDonald's cheeseburgers, donuts, liquorice, sweets and an assortment of pizza slices.
But despite the food being two years old, it looks surprisingly fresh considering its age. At a glance, each item shows few signs of decomposition - with a batch of shrivelled up fast food French fries seen in the clip arguably showing their age the most.
But the other items stored display very little discolouration with not a large patch of mould in sight. A voice over to the clip, written by @elifgkandemir, can be heard saying: "This is my mum's food cupboard full of foods that never go off.
"My mum is a nutritionist helping to tackle obesity. These foods shown here are ultra-processed foods that 80 per cent of the UK consume on a regular basis."
The video was viewed over 1 million times after it was posted and led to @elifgkandemir receiving a number of questions and observations. She posted a subsequent video giving users a closer look at the evergreen haul and explained more about the reason behind her mum's expired food store.
In that clip, she says: "Most of this food she's been collecting over the last two years, so most of it is one to two years old. 80 per cent of the UK are now eating this diet, probably without knowledge of what they are eating, a recent documentary by BBC One titled 'What Are We Feeding Our Kids' involved Dr Chris van Tulleken eating this kind of diet exclusively for a period of a month with devastating results.
"And though it is true, that you can have anything and everything in moderation, 80 per cent of a person's diet should not be made up of these foods. No food is off-limits, my mum is simply trying to encourage people to make better food decisions and live a happier, healthier lifestyle."
