What is the burnt orange for Covid recipe?
The Burnt Orange Covid recipe is a video shared by a TikTok user which shows how to make the recipe which involves cooking a whole orange on an open flame, peeling it off before mashing and mixing it with two teaspoons of brown sugar.
The original TikTok video about the Burnt Orange for Covid recipe was first shared by an Architecture student Kemar Gary Lalor in December 2020,
The video at that time gained him thousands of views and likes and Kemar claims that burnt orange helped his mother regain her sense of smell and taste after contracting Covid last year.
How have people reacted to the recipe?
After the video went viral, a lot of people gave the recipe a go and after they have been a mixed reactions as some said that the strong smell of orange helped them revive their sense of taste or smell, while others were sceptical as it didn’t help them at all
Just ordered oranges on Amazon Fresh. I need that Jamaican remedy with the burnt orange to work.
A user Twitted after watching the clip.
I just tried the burnt orange and brown sugar thing from TikTok to get [your] taste back after Covid and it didn’t work.
Another User wrote.
So, does it work?
A simple answer to this is no, as there’s no scientific evidence to confirm that the recipe works and Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, said that people might have already regained their sense of smell and taste without realising.
People often don’t know how much smell they lost, so if they do something that’s really intense, like burning an orange peel, that will give you an extraordinary sensation, you may have already had an ability, but you’ve essentially shocked your system into smelling something strong.
she explained.