‘Delicious and Wonderful’: Nutritionists on Viral Butter-Stuffed Dates [Video]

Sticky and sweet Medjool dates, filled with butter and topped with flaky salt have been circulating on social media as a yummy and nutritious snack.

One video of a woman trying the viral snack has racked up 2.1 million views in its first 10 days on TikTok.

In the video, Joyce Arizala sits in her car in Sydney, Australia, and shows the snack to the camera, saying: “So, apparently if you put butter and salt in a Medjool date, it ends up tasting like cookie dough, so let’s try it.”

After tasting the butter-filled date, she says: “That’s insane … It’s almost like a salted caramel-type taste.”

Sometimes paired with a square of dark chocolate, the trend seems particularly popular among influencers on an animal-based diet, which is like the carnivore diet—where just meat, eggs and dairy feature—except dieters can eat fruit, honey and a few other foods too.

Newsweekreached out to three nutrition experts to get …