A man with a “titanium belly” has amassed more than four million views on TikTok after going viral experimenting with how far he can stretch the shelf life of foods – including eating a fried egg 73 days past its best before date when another the same age had turned green.
Gavin Wren, 44, from Forest Gate, east London, is on a stomach-turning mission to find out whether staple foods found in many of our fridges, including hummus, coleslaw and yogurt, can last far longer than you might expect and what they do to him if he eats them when they are out of date.
