“OK, I’ve discovered something that I can’t figure out what it is, and I need your help,” she told her followers in the now-infamous clip. “I just bit into it because it was on the street, and we were discussing whether this was a tomato or not.”

“What the heck is this? Because, when you open it up, it looks like that,” she said, turning her camera to show the squashed fruit on the ground. “And if I bite it — I don’t think you’re supposed to eat this — but it’s almost like a pepper? Does anyone know what this is?”

Shortly after she posted the clip, many people speculated that she had been eating a Jerusalem cherry, a berry which looks similar to a cherry tomato, and has seeds similar to those of a pepper.

Crucially, it is also poisonous, and can cause symptoms including fever, sweating, vomiting, stomach pain, headache and an increased heart rate, leading many to feel alarmed at the thought of Alicia picking and eating one.

Fortunately, she has since posted an update assuring people she’s “alive and well”.