As many Americans continue to emerge from back-to-back snowstorms, actress Reese Witherspoon is sparking a heated online debate about eating snow.
In her latest TikTok video, Witherspoon caused quite a stir by trying to make the delicious winter drink with fresh snow. “Snow days were made for Chococinnos,” she wrote in the caption.
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The comments came almost immediately. “No, no, no…” one TikTok user stated on Reese Witherspoon’s post. “Snow is not made for eating… you can get very sick.”
“Isn’t the snow dirty?” noted another TikTok user.
However, some TikTik users quickly ignored the uproar. “Falling snow can be very dirty from the air and wind,” wrote one TikTok user. “But who cares? He only lives once. I remember eating snow when I was a kid.”
“I had no idea you could eat snow,” admitted a fellow TikTok user. “It makes sense that it could be if it’s clean, but living on the coast of Australia I’ve never seen snow let alone eaten.”
Reese Witherspoon asks if it’s safe to eat snow or not
After the back and forth comments continued, Reese Witherspoon began to wonder if snow is safe to eat or not.
“We went and got snow from the backyard and heated it in the microwave,” he explained. “And it is clear. Is it that bad?”
Then he asked, “Am I not supposed to eat snow?”
In an interview with Prevention, Mary Scarzello Fairbanks, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said snow comes from evaporated water rising from the surface.
“In the snow you can find traces of water from rivers, lakes or oceans around the world,” he explained. However, she says there are other things besides water that make snow. “Snow contains droplets that hold bits of dust, small bacteria or other things floating in the air.”
Although there is no safety guide for eating snow, the CDC warns that it is not a good idea to eat snow if you are stranded. But, fortunately, there are still no “diseases related to snow consumption.”
“It’s safe in small amounts,” explained Diana Calello, MD, executive medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System and associate professor of emergency medicine at Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey. “A small amount is not toxic. It is not good to prepare a meal with that.”
Calello said eating too much snow could cause an upset stomach, as well as vomiting, diarrhea and even an infection. However, in Reece Witherspoon’s case, it would take a lot of snow.
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