Why Is Everyone on TikTok Dipping Veggies Into Cottage Cheese and Mustard?

glamour.com:

internet, you know influencers are constantly sharing  health concoctions—some new, some rediscovered—that promise results that range from better sleep to increased stamina.

Some of us have been influenced scoured Whole Foods to find chia seeds and spirulina to blend into smoothies, chugged lemon water and bone broth, and sampled a vast array of allegedly gut-fixing probiotics.To participate in the latest TikTok wellness trend though, you just need a few very unsexy ingredients: cottage cheese, yellow mustard, and as many raw veggies as you can stomach.Known alternatively as the “cottage cheese and mustard diet,” the “mustard and cottage cheese plate,” or just “the viral healthy meal,” this latest health trend is sweeping the internet, with on TikTok and tons of people trying it for themselves.

Unlike other wellness trends, though, this meal is absurdly simple and decidedly low brow. It consists of placing each item on a plate, usually alongside a chicken sausage for some form of protein, and dipping the uncooked veggies (popular choices are broccoli, carrots, hearts of palm, and Brussel sprouts) in both the mustard and the cottage cheese.

No cooking, blending, or juicing required.It may look unappetizing to some of us (hi, it’s me, I’m some of us) but thousands of women on the app are swearing it’s not only delicious but has health benefits as well.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“I genuinely feel much better, less bloated, I have more energy, and have noticed less sugar cravings in just as little as four days which is insane to me,” one fan of the meal, Analisa Pizarro, tells Glamour.