Does the burnt orange remedy really help regain senses after COVID-19? | Is This Legit?

We would LOVE to report that this home remedy will help you regain your senses after getting COVID-19. Unfortunately, there is no scientific evidence to prove that eating a charred orange with sugar will revive your sense of taste and smell. Instead, experts say people who experience positive results were likely already recovering from their symptoms.
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Sources for this fact-check:
USA Today, Fact check: Burnt oranges, brown sugar won't restore senses lost to COVID-19: www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
The New York Times, Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me?: www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/di...
Miami Herald, COVID taste loss remedy with oranges, sugar gains popularity on TikTok. Does it work?: www.miamiherald.com/news/coro...
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[@barneyfeif6382]

Worked like a charm for me! it was hit and miss at first, but then after three days 100% recovery

[@sephcantallejo7357]

I totally agree with you, girl! Thanks a lot!

[@fredsucks902]

“Fact checkers” Immediately disliked, about to leave, but I had to make it a point to comment first.

[@edwardburtley]

The only way to know for sure if it works is to try it for yourself. No two people are alike and results will always vary even if it was a scientific method everyone results can never be the same, so quit watching hours upon hours of the same videos and go try it for yourself kill all doubt for yourself.

[@fernandonava4912]

Worked for me. Took a few hours after. Regained my full smelling and taste.

[@joshbarton4373]

Did it really tho? Like you fully lost your taste and smell and it actually worked??

[@fernandonava4912]

@@joshbarton4373 yup. No taste and smell. I would grab vapor rub and inhale and I could not smell it. I would grao pine sol and nothing. I couldn’t taste anything. So I got desperate and tried it and a few hours of disappointment later my wife was cooking and I started smelling again and slowly that evening got my taste back.

[@joshbarton4373]

@@fernandonava4912 , that’s awesome, I’m happy for you and glad it worked. It’s been a week for me and I’ve been miserable so I just tried it just now and I’m hoping it will help, if not I’m gonna try it once a day for like 5 days and see if that works.

[@adrianfregoso5921]

@@joshbarton4373 did it work?

[@joshbarton4373]

@@adrianfregoso5921 it didn’t work unfortunately, but my taste and smell came back about 2 months later.

[@Mars2488]

I cut up a yellow onion and it awoken my sense of smell. When i was at the end of finishing up cutting it made me tear up and i could smell the strong burn of the onion. Now i can smell light scents.

[@LinCalc]

If you want proof that the loss of taste is a direct result of losing your sense of smell, try plugging your nose and eating something. Not much flavour there.

[@druidactual]

My sense of taste never went away but my smell is gone, it's been 8 months. People say this but it's absolutely not true in my case.

[@agl4934]

Taste: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami only Flavour: needs sense of smell.

[@achillesroblox]

My taste never went away thouhh. I still have can't smell anything (for 3 weeks already) to the point that I can put a red onion slice literally on my nostrils and i don't smell nor feel anything. I didn't even cry. lmao. i'm going to try this orange thing tho. but i can taste everything i eat and drink. very weird smelling farts. lmaoooo

[@Sam-wc7uo]

I tried it last night. Two hours after I ate the orange, I could feel some sense of smell coming back. Today I just realized that I can smell a lot more. I would say that I'm 90% there. And no, I wasn't getting it back naturally, I couldn't smell a thing prior to trying this. It would give me anxiety not being able to smell. Note: I only had the issue with my sense of smell, my sense of taste was ok.

[@cbfields7342]

It worked for my sister, who is a nurse. May not work for everyone.

[@dontyouworrychild8920]

I really works! Within a day I could smell and taste everything again

[@craigj6277]

After 14 months without my sense of smell post Covid, I gave this a shot. Didn’t help one bit. Might as well stick pins in a doll.

[@jayw729]

That doctor said 4 weeks lmao, what about 2 years later. It doesn’t come back for a lot of ppl, I would know. I think I know when a steak smells like rotten meat vs pepper and garlic.

[@MyplayLists4Y2Y]

Thumbs up!

[@lynnesears1]

Disastrous, I thought what harm can it do? I had taste but not smell. Now I have a constant horrid taste of burnt Orange and still no smell. A week

[@remyfontaine8157]

tbh as an academic who came into school for psychology, science doesn’t know everything. The empirical model is what our science uses in the west and it’s super young, it’s from the European enlightenment. Also scientist know that the placebo effect is so powerful, that they literally use them for something called “control” groups. If something like burning an orange doesn’t have internal health risks why not? An extreme sensation like that psychologist could be what some bodies need to recover their senses. Idk if it’s safe but if it is go for it

[@yassver]

Exactly! Just cause science doesn’t know now doesn’t mean it won’t help…

[@GrandmaKeith]

That burned orange looks a bit like Donald Trump.

[@funnymemes9151]

I need to try this because the taste in my mouth is making me still feel sick

[@lpslizzystudios]

There wasn't any science to forced facemasks either, but yet there we were. I had several instances where doctors (science) were wrong.

[@screwyou1199]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read, according to who is there no science to wearing masks? Stop believing what you read on Facebook

[@darstro12]

I tried this I think it was only a temporary fix because I lost my smell again or same as before

[@Panasyukvic]

Same for me

[@achillesroblox]

same. i got a lysol that's orange scented, after a spray I smelled it and then after spraying again it's still gone.

[@investorpablo3532]

Don't bother yourself, just search for Dr Ehisz on KZbin,he cured me after 13 months I lost my taste and smell,he will cure you too"

[@glamspalife2645]

It worked for me but not my husband

[@shalowl5]

It worked for me

[@makeupbymelisa11]

How soon after you lost smell did you try this?

[@shalowl5]

@@makeupbymelisa11 4 days later.

[@JOK3RC4RDx]

@@shalowl5 did u try in after your covid was completely gone or while you still kinda had it ?

[@shalowl5]

@@JOK3RC4RDx i still had covid when i tried it.

[@JOK3RC4RDx]

@@shalowl5 oh bc i tried it a few times but my smell hasnt returned ive had covid for 8 ish days now maybe im not doing it completely right

[@lolita1979]

Tried it. Does not work. Just a bunch of typical internet hype.

[@Cartoonees]

I only used a regular orange without it burned and i got my smell and taste back

[@micaineseeley5339]

Her channel should be called how to appeal to authority. Hopefully she didn't listen to the authorities with the vax. Cardiovascular damage is less than ideal.

[@cheskafaith75]

it didn't work on me i just did it now

[@totuff78]

Worked within an hour

[@AsydTrip]

Did it today, didn’t work. 10 months no taste and smell

[@investorpablo3532]

Don't bother yourself, just search for Dr Ehisz on KZbin,he cured me after 13 months I lost my taste and smell,he will cure you too"

[@Dessthemess]

@@investorpablo3532 you’re a liar. That “herbal medicine” is an absolute scam. Shame on you.

[@she.pips.fx_trader]

have you tried lemon, close, rose and euchalyptic oil? youtube this sis

[@chiquis1019]

Yup 10 mths today for me too its depressing

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

Kiss those smell receptors good bye.

[@jonnypage9484]

No offense meltering just sounds like a crack of s*** when it comes to go over 19 cuz it doesn't matter what I taste or what I smell I don't smell anything at all I could be right next to a riding carcass wouldn't bug me in the slightest but before I lost my smell and taste I could be almost 30 ft away and it would have me gagging almost throwing up My nose is extremely sensitive

[@covidsmellandtastefix8355]

I just took earbuds and put them in my nose and downloaded a volume booster which enhanced the bass of a song that I then played from KZbin. This vibrated the virus(parasite) and convinced it to let go of my nasal cavity and then I blew my nose and out it came. Smell and taste back instantly.

[@zackking4742]

Can't tell if your joking or not.

[@Blue_Fire_1013]

July 10th is when I lost it…today is October 24. Everything still tastes and smells different…. But I never had covid

[@cheskafaith75]

same

[@maicao8328]

I often wonder some people blood type never show that they had covid! I have family members that had chest pain cough & they had negative covid test. And ended up they died from nemonia, cardiac arrest, lung cancer last year!

[@Blue_Fire_1013]

@@maicao8328 well hey no don’t put that in the air!! I hope you’re doing alright though. My smell is starting to come back as of January 3 still no covid, or any other illness which is super odd for me(knock on wood) just my typical allergies!

[@foudilodz34]

Me too

[@Blue_Fire_1013]

@@foudilodz34 still?! Even tho they’re saying the O stand is on a decline?

[@bigcplusguitar]

Uses Google, claims to be a fact checker 🤦 sounds about right.

[@kevinlast3874]

Why can't you fact check using google?

[@bigcplusguitar]

@@kevinlast3874 Google has been caught censoring information for a long time. So what you see on their search results isn't always what should come up first. They have proven to a partisan company.

[@kevinlast3874]

@@bigcplusguitar how would that change the information itself? If something that disproves a claim comes up on google, why would that make it false?

[@bigcplusguitar]

@@kevinlast3874 because Google hides what it wishes to hide and shows what it wishes to show. The truth has no bearing on what is shown and what isn't. And not everything online is true.

[@fredsucks902]

@Christian Garabedian Kinda like how they did with “mass formation psychosis” people really trust big tech while they sell all their information.

[@FixNewsPlease]

Watching this makes me realize just how cringe Matt Gaetz is.

[@brucek.4071]

Socialists hate patriots.

[@FixNewsPlease]

@@brucek.4071 Patriots fight with the nation against an attack.

[@larryfloyd5111]

There's no money and fame in proving that eating a burned orange will regain your sense of smell.

[@cheskafaith75]

and it taste so gross🤢

[@koromandel7832]

how u know it taste gross if u dont taste? i have no smell and taste for 4-5 days. i dont taste anythink. this orange was just sweet and it doesnt helped at all.

[@terrysoto8407]

Maybe they're not losing the taste or smell it's just they're changing the food on us

[@brandylogan3270]

Lies

[@terrysoto8407]

I think people are losing their sense of smell because they're changing the food and its synthetic or it's fake food

[@snowylove2002]

There’s some truth to this, look into skimpflation

[@koromandel7832]

its not working at all. not on me.