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Posts:August 2025
The Rise of “Maxxing”: TikTok’s Extreme Food Trend Rhetoric
by Dylan Bailey, MS, RD, FAND| August 12, 2025
TikTok’s new “maxxing” lexicon reflects an era of extreme food trends – often hyperbolic, sometimes satirical, yet deeply influential. The latest craze, “fibermaxxing,” encourages dramatically boosting fiber intake for health benefits. Hundreds of TikTok posts with the #fibermaxxing hashtag have flooded feeds, making high-fiber diets suddenly “cool.” Meanwhile, adjacent memes like “Red 40 maxxing” (ironically […]
