CAMPBELL'S SOUP CUSTOMER ISSUES WARNING ON WHY YOU SHOULDN'T EAT FOOD FROM DENTED CANS 

TikToker Ashlea Nicole (@ashlea_nicole) uploaded a viral video where she used some tomato soup cans she purchased to warn others against the dangers of eating damaged goods.

“If you’ve ever wondered why they say don’t use dented cans,” Nicole says, holding up a Campbell’s dented can to the camera as part of a 4-pack of tomato soup.

“This is why. Just got this and I cut it open to get the cans out. The cans were all like this.”

She lines them up without the plastic covering to show that the dents were hidden.

“Till we pulled them out and this one was like this, and this one was like this,” she says, displaying not one but two damaged cans.

She shows the inside of one empty can, and zoomed in on the dent from the inside, revealing a slit in the tin.

“Looks like it split in the can there and the lining on the inside of the can is peeling off in the soup,” she says, showing off a shard of the lining.

The USDA lists two primary reasons shoppers should avoid eating foods from dented cans: The first is bodily harm that could occur after eating minuscule pieces of metallic shrapnel/debris. 

The second is that if a can is dented and pierced, the sealing/preservation process has been compromised. This allows bacteria to possibly infiltrate the food container

Numerous TikTokers who responded to Nicole’s video posted about their own fears of contracting botulism as a result of eating from a dented can. “Botulism. My micro professor has engraved this into my brain,” one person wrote.