TikTok posts for product watched 81.5m times, but experts say evidence of long-term safety and effectiveness is lacking

Two rashers of raw bacon, a box of syringes and a vial of yellow liquid have been neatly arranged on a kitchen table. “Let’s dissolve some bacon fat together,” says a woman wearing rubber gloves. She lifts a syringe and injects one of the rashers with the yellow solution. Within minutes, the fat starts to disintegrate.

This isn’t a school science experiment. Instead, it’s one of hundreds of videos promoting Lemon Bottle: a new fat-dissolving injection promising miracle results.

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