‘Tadpole water’ is the latest TikTok wellness trend. Does it work?

The mixture of water, lemon juice and chia seeds is the latest weight-loss hack. But health experts preach caution.

“Drinking my tadpole water, hoping to get snatched by Thursday,” posts one TikTok user in a clip viewed 1.4 million times. For those worried, she is not about to down a glass of frog larvae. Rather a viscous mixture of water, lemon juice, and chia seeds, dubbed the latest weight-loss hack.