Skincare breakfast — it’s the latest woo woo beauty ‘cure’ trending on TikTok

Let food be thy medicine.

Heard the one about breakfast being the most important meal of the day? Don’t forget to feed your skin as well, according to the so-called beauty experts of TikTok.

Self-care influencers on the popular social media app are suddenly touting something called the “skincare breakfast,” a morning feeding routine said to guarantee a perfect complexion.

Alice Sun is just one content creator eagerly sharing skin-friendly supping tips with her followers, from glowing skin mocktails to moisturizing tofu salads and a range of healing broths.

Sun recently bragged to her audience, numbering over 340,000, that she had perfected the skincare breakfast — a menu of salmon, kimchi, rice, miso broth and cucumbers.

The Chinese medicinal healing enthusiast, who recently moved from New York to Los Angeles, claimed the “gut-friendly,” “hydrating” meal has “made a huge difference” for her dry, sensitive skin.

Isabelle Lux, who boasts more than 514,000 followers, outlined her “glowing skin breakfast,” comprised of coconut-based yogurt, pumpkin and chia seeds, berries and probiotics.

And another creator, Millie Mae, swears by her daily morning oatmeal bowls to keep her skin blemish-free.

Delicious as it all may sound, these skin hacks aren’t necessarily backed by fact, experts say.

“There is no evidence in the science to support the use of any specific food to benefit skin,” board-certified dermatologist Dr. Natalia Spierings told Metro.

While eating too much processed junk could negatively impact complexion, Spierings said there is no cure-all food for skin.

“Eating too much sugar is not going to impact your skin in the short term but in the long term it has a huge impact on your general health and if your general health is poor, your skin almost certainly will show that in being lackluster, dull and so on,” she explained.

According to the American Academy of Dermatology, foods that cause a sudden blood sugar spike, and subsequent inflammation, could be an acne trigger.

“But there is no specific food or thing someone can do to improve their skin ‘from within’ – aside from stop smoking if you smoke,” Spierings said.

The skincare breakfast idea appears to have been spawned by another recent ingestible skincare trend on TikTok, which had influencers swearing that a once-daily vitamin could ban blemishes.

While the theory relies on research around the gut-skin axis, experts have debunked the trending skincare supplements as mostly bogus.

Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Muneeb Shah previously told The Post that, although vitamin and mineral deficiencies can exacerbate certain skin conditions, “most supplements are fads and tend not to stand the test of time.”

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“Most of these products are not worth the hype,” he said.