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Competitive eater was 'almost killed' by food challenge

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Published 17:35 19 Dec 2023 GMT

Competitive eater was 'almost killed' by food challenge

Competitive eater Adam Moran AKA BeardMeatsFood has opened up on the time he almost died.

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Essentially getting paid to eat food for a living sounds like an absolute dream.

But when a food challenge goes wrong, it can go very wrong.

Competitive eater Adam Moran - known on YouTube as BeardMeatsFood - has opened up on the time he felt like he was going to die.

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The streamer from Yorkshire has over three million subscribers and has become very popular for taking on a series of daring food challenges.

Adam Moran has done some mad food challenges.
YouTube/BeardMeatsFood

In one of his most-watched videos from 2019, Adam filmed himself attempting 'Johnny Scoville’s Tube of Terror Challenge'.

Johnny Scoville is a professional chilli eater who worked with Blazing Foods to create a spicy AF tube of nuts.

The challenge is to eat an entire tube in under 10 minutes.

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"Developed for Johnny and his insane group of heat-seeking chili-heads… The Scoville Squad! Our biggest challenge was making a tiny little peanut STOOOPID HOT," reads the product description.

"It required quite a bit of trial and error with countless revisions to get this product hot enough to tickle Johnny’s heat tolerance.

Johnny Scoville’s Tube of Terror Challenge almost finished him off.
YouTube/BeardMeatsFood

"We finally locked in with a premium blend of the 6 hottest peppers on earth then kicked it up a notch with pure, all natural 13,000,000 SHU Capsaicin Crystals."

For context, Scoville Units (SHU) is the scale on which the heat of a chilli pepper is judged.

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A regular jalapeno pepper measures between 2,500 to 8,000 SHU, which sums up how hot these chillies actually are.

"A tube of 13 million SHU peanuts more than twice as hot as police issue pepper spray...10 minutes to eat 'em, 5 minutes afterburn...Can I beat it like I beat the Death Nut challenge?" the YouTuber explained at the time.

YouTube/BeardMeatsFood

Opening up on the experience on JaackMaate's Happy Hour Podcast in 2021, Adam said he thought he was going to die.

He explained: "There's this thing you can buy called 'the tube of terror', which is just a tube of nuts, right.

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"It's a tube of nuts and they get progressively hotter, the last handful is like, I think 12 million Scovilles or something.

"That's the only one time I think in my life I thought I'm maybe gonna die because I remember like I couldn't hear anything out my left ear.

"My right arm started tingling I'm thinking, 'oh my god I'm gonna [have a] stroke here, what's going on?'

"I think I must have gone through like three pots of Ben & Jerry's afterwards.

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"I was chewing down on bread, eating sugar, everything they tell you to do."

Incredibly, Adam completed the challenge with around three minutes left on the timer.

Was it worth it though?

LADbible has contacted Blazing Foods for comment.

Featured Image Credit: BeardMeatsFood/Instagram

Topics: YouTube, Food And Drink

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish is a Journalist at LADbible Group and is a GG2 Young Journalist of the Year 2025. He has a Master's degree in Multimedia Journalism and a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management. Apart from that, his life revolves around the ‘Four F’s’ - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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