A Tennessee-based TikToker was making herself some Pillsbury biscuits. But she was stopped in her tracks by something unusual in the dough.
While unsavory things have shown up in Pillsbury products before, this was on another level.
“I wanted to make this video to inform people to be careful when they buy the [biscuits] in a can,” TikToker Sparkle Martin (@sparkle.with.lemo) says. “I’ve been buying these all my life, and I have never seen anything like this.” She told viewers she had been buying the biscuits for a long time from Walmart.
Martin also holds up a piece of dough to the camera that contained silver flecks.
“So, as you can see, I thought everything was OK, but then I was like, ‘What is that?’ And I go to look in it, and there’s metal. There’s metal all in the biscuit,” she says.
She adds, “That is dangerous. That is highly dangerous, and it’s all in it. I’m like, I’m actually shocked.”
Martin says she initially thought it was in just one piece but then discovered there were bits of silver in other pieces of dough “clear as day.”
“Yeah, so, won’t be eating these,” she continues. “But wow. Definitely wanted to inform people.”
Accompanying the footage was on-screen text that read: “Check your food before you COOK IT! Metal found in Pillsbury Biscuits Butter Tastin’ Flaky Layer.”
The video garnered 140,700 views.
Commenters’ Responses Were Mixed
Some commenters were shaken by this discovery. “If this goes viral and the company tries to contact you, go for the lawsuit instead plsssss,” one wrote.
“FDA needs to do better they let too many things slide,” a second said.
While a third asked, “Can someone please tell me what the heck is going on seriously with our food? I’m 56 years old and have found more weird stuff in my food in the last year than I have in my whole life. It’s scary and crazy.”
However, other users implied that Walmart was the underlying issue here. “Why do ppl still shop at Walmart?” a fourth asked. “They are notorious for bad products.”
“Don’t buy food from Walmart please,” a fifth added. And a sixth said, “Walmart food is horrible.”
In two follow-ups, the TikToker responded to commenters saying the cans were old by explaining that the ‘rust’ on the cans were just where she spilled something on them. She also responded to viewers’ claims that what she was seeing was just parts of the outer wrapping . She did this by opening up another can. Inside this can, debris from the wrapper was attached to the dough, but as Martin pointed out, there was no metal. She also reposted this footage in a third clip.
It’s A Widespread Problem
Over the past two years, multiple Reddit users have shared similar stories. All of these posts included either footage or pictures of similar silver flecks in their dough. “No wonder the roof of my mouth hurts,” one user quipped.
Moreover, back in 2025, two other TikTokers went viral after sharing an identical problem. User @badgalprepre was making pizza rolls with Pillsbury dough when she discovered flecks of metal in the dough. “There are literally metal shavings in this biscuit dough,” she said. “How is this OK? We’ve been eating metal.”
Similarly, TikTok user Marina (@marinathingz) was horrified when she found the same. “I’m pulling these freaking biscuits out, and they all have … little pieces of aluminum in them,” she complained.
The only way that Pillsbury has directly addressed this is with a 2015 X post in response to a disgruntled customer. “Sorry to see that!” the post read. “Sometimes, tiny pieces of the silver paper packaging sticks to the dough.”
What Did The TikToker Say?
In a TikTok direct message interview with BroBible, Martin said, “I am a Christian woman and I have a very strong level of discernment and the lord told me to look deeper into what I was preparing for my children . Especially in this day and age you never know what it is that you’re eating.”
She also explained that she had opened up another can and found that it had no pieces in it but added that it was “unfortunate” as she had bought three cans in total and was unsure whether the biscuits she and her family already consumed also had metal in them.
“I want the viewers to take away that God is trying to open our eyes that a lot of these companies are middle man companies and they are cutting corners to get our money and not caring about the quality and safety of the products their selling,” she added. “It’s very important.”
She continued, “My oldest is 6 years old he is autistic and it’s very common for children with autism to have reported to have had lead and metal in their system. A lot of times because if the food their consuming and my son LOVES PILLSBURY so the fact that it is this unsafe I have decided to stop buying their products of all kind and that really broke his heart. But safety matters. I want the viewers to take this seriously, it’s not a joke. It’s real life.”
According to Martin, nobody is taking the situation “seriously,” and she claimed that Pillsbury hasn’t reached out yet. “It’s been more than enough time for Pillsbury to reach out and they haven’t, so Im going to keep reposting until they apologize and work on the upgrading the quality of their food, as I so know accidents happen,” she added. “Those same accidents can cause someone their life!”
In terms of the video’s reception, Martin added that she got “lots of feedback” and said the video had even been liked and reposted by a celebrity.
“This video is going to reach people who understand God is trying to wake us up to be more aware of what we’re eating and doing in our lives,” she told us. “A lot of viewers are arguing whether it’s Walmart fault for selling it or Pillsbury for making it. But it doesn’t matter. The MAIN THING IS BRINGING AWARENESS AND LETTING GOD HANDLE THE REST.”
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General Mills, who own Pillsbury, didn’t immediately respond to BroBible’s request for comment via email. Walmart, who we contacted via contact form, has also not provided a comment.