Kansas woman Andrea Jensen tried out the latest trend going around TikTok - and it involves eating a burnt orange to recover taste and smell loss.

The viral trend that many claim to be a Jamaican remedy promises to miraculously restore a loss of taste or smell from COVID-19.

Andrea (@dreajensenl) posted a TikTok video burning an orange, cutting off the blackened skin, mixing it with brown sugar, and eating the concoction.

She said: "I didn't really notice any difference within that first hour. However, I would say the next day, and a few days afterwards, I did see a little bit of a difference. Granted, I could've just been getting my taste and smell back gradually, but I only really noticed a difference after the orange, and I haven't really seen another difference since then.

"I would say within a couple of days, I gained pretty much all of my smell back and then minimal of my taste. Taste isn't 100 percent what it used to be for me, which is kind of sad. Everything is pretty bland still, but after the orange, I definitely tasted a lot more."

Experts say there's no scientific evidence that eating charred orange can cure a loss of senses.

Speaking to NBC's Today, Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, said it's likely that those who try to burn an orange to get their senses back had already gained some smell and taste and haven't realised.

Dalton said people doing something intense like burning an orange will "give you an extraordinary sensation" and that there is also the placebo effect to consider.

Andrea tests out the Jamaican burnt orange remedy for regaining taste and smell after having COVID-19.