I did a McDonald’s test & left my Big Mac for eight months to see if it’d go mouldy – here’s what it looks like now
A WOMAN who conducted a McDonald’s experiment to see how long it’d take for her Big Mac to go mouldy has showed off the worrying results eight months on.
Tsofanye, a medical herbalist, explained how she bought a McDonald’s Big Mac on the 2nd February of this year and a McPlant veggie burger in June and decided to put them to the test to see how fresh they really are.
She explained that “if it’s good quality food, then natural processes should occur. If they do not occur, something else is in the food….”
In a clip shared to TikTok (@Tsofanye), she shows off the results and says: “As you can see, this is my Big Mac.
“It’s got the dust because I just leave it on top of a bookshelf and don’t touch it.
“This is officially 8 months old.
“No mould, just looking fabulous with the lettuce and everything.”
Tsofanye then goes onto explain how she bought the McPlant veggie burger in June.
“We often think the plant version is more healthier but the McPlant is just as…well not fresh…but there’s no mould, no smell, no insects, no nothing,” she says.
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“But yeah, so this is was born bought in June of this year. So still looking good.”
The post has since gone viral, racking up a whopping 764k views and hundreds of comments from horrified social media users.
“This is sad.. I haven’t eaten fast food in 25 years,” wrote one.
A second penned: “The chips down the side of the chairs in my car confirm this.”
A third noted: “Ain’t had McDonalds in 2 years thank God!”
In a response to another social media user who asked why it was rotting, she claimed: “Because they put in a looot of preservatives and chemicals.
However, Natasha Blythe, at High Speed Training, has spoken exclusively to Fabulous and revealed a rather different reason the burgers may not have gone mouldy.
“Whilst food that never goes off might sound like the ideal scenario, this is definitely not the case with fresh food,” she says.
“The fact that the burgers have not gone mouldy is not necessarily a sign that they are loaded full of chemicals and preservatives, contrary to popular belief.
“Although the burgers do contain natural preservatives, such as salt, the fact is that the lack of mould is due to the lack of moisture.”
She goes on to explain how McDonald’s burgers are cooked at a high temperature for food hygiene reasons, and are cooked well done, which removes most of the moisture during the cooking process.
“These particular burgers have also been kept in the open, which means that any remaining moisture can escape into the environment, rather than settling on the food and allowing mould to grow,” she explains.
“If the burgers were kept within a plastic bag or sealed box where moisture couldn’t escape, it’s more likely that mould would start to grow. This is the same reason why bread can last for longer if you remove it from plastic packaging.”
Fabulous has contacted McDonald’s for comment