{"id":5805,"date":"2026-08-28T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/could-this-strange-instagram-craze-be-bad-for-your-health-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:52:29","slug":"could-this-strange-instagram-craze-be-bad-for-your-health-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/could-this-strange-instagram-craze-be-bad-for-your-health-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this strange Instagram craze be bad for your health? &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bE3nbI2hGZg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Instagram is full of outlandish food trends \u2013 from the rainbow bagel to unicorn toast.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years black food has become more and more popular. But does activated charcoal have genuine health benefits, or is it just another Instagram-friendly food myth?<\/p>\n<p>Script by Elena Cresci<br \/>\nAnimation by Adam Proctor<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bE3nbI2hGZg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram is full of outlandish food trends \u2013 from the rainbow bagel to unicorn toast. Over the last few years black food has become more and more popular. But does activated charcoal have genuine health benefits, or is it just another Instagram-friendly food myth? Script by Elena Cresci Animation by Adam Proctor #bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":5806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}