‘NOT REAL FOOD:' Doctor shows McDonald’s burger that sat out 62 days
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A doctor horrified fast food lovers after showing what happened to a McDonald’s meal and a Papa John’s pizza he left sitting out for more than two months.
Dr. Robert DeBease kept a McDonald’s hamburger and fries, and a Papa John’s pepperoni pizza on his kitchen table for weeks and shared what they looked like — 62 days later.
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“This ‘food’ refuses to rot… and that should terrify you,” he wrote in an Instagram post.
But if you expected the result to be something green and furry, think again.
The greasy takeout bag looks more worse for wear than the contents inside because aside from the food items looking rock hard, they appeared to all be intact, resembling what they would have looked like when they were first ordered.
“There’s zero changes. There’s no mold. There’s no decay,” he said in the video post.
“Personally, I don’t get it. If this was a piece of bread, it would be the colour of Kermit the Frog right now.”
“Why isn’t this food rotting?” he asked, before answering himself: “Well, probably because it’s not real food.”
The Georgia-based naturopath and chiropractor likened the fries to a “chemistry experiment” filled with chemicals designed to keep it looking fresh on the outside while slowing rotting you and I on the inside.
He then clarified not him because he doesn’t eat this “garbage.”
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In his caption, DeBease noted how fast food is “full of preservatives like calcium propionate, BHA, and TBHQ — chemicals that extend shelf life but destroy your health.”
He explained that while the additives used to preserve the food prevent mold from forming, they also disrupt hormones, increase body fat, worsen inflammation, cause autoimmune disease flare-ups, and damage gut microbiomes, adding that they are also “filled with ultra-processed carbs and seed oils.”
“If this food doesn’t rot, maybe your body doesn’t know how to break it down either,” he continued in his PSA.
DeBease added that if anything, people should opt to “heal with real food” and to “ditch fake food.”
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