Man makes shocking discovery comparing chicken bought at his local butcher to Walmart and Perdue poultry: 'This is alarming'

A man who bought chicken breasts from two different stores was shocked to learn how different they can be from one another.

Kalani Smith, who's known as Kalani Ghost Hunter on social media, posted a TikTok video on May 21 of him comparing chicken breasts that he bought at Walmart, Perdue and from his local butcher in Tennessee.

The ghost hunter picked up each of the unopened packages of chicken breast before showing viewers the scale he would use to weigh each chicken breast and determine how different the poultry items were from one another.

The video of Smith's 'scary' discovery has received over one million views, and more than 5,000 TikTokers have left comments.

Right away, he pointed out some of the differences between the chicken breasts before he took them out of the package

'Visually, you can see there's a huge difference between what we're getting at our local butcher from a farm, compared to what they're giving us at Walmart,' said Smith.

Pointing to the small words on the Walmart package, he said that its chicken breast could have 'up to 5 percent water retained.' 

From that note, Smith, primarily known for his food and ghost hunting-themed videos on social media, decided to take one piece of chicken breast from each brand and weigh them on a scale.

Smith first took the biggest chicken breast from his local butcher shop and carefully put it on the scale, before revealing that the farm-fresh chicken breast weighed 187 grams.

The ghost hunter then removed a piece of Walmart chicken breast but revealed that he would need to trim part of it so that the results would be 'as accurate as possible.'

The TikToker was nearly speechless after he saw that the weight of the Walmart chicken breast after he trimmed it came in at 392 grams.

Smith moved on to the Perdue chicken breast, which he claimed was 'supposed to be a little bit better quality than Walmart.'

However, his jaw dropped as soon as he found out that the Perdue chicken breast weighed 347 grams.

'If you compare the percentage difference between the smallest breast we have to the largest, it's 109.6 percent bigger at Walmart than it is from our butcher,' said Smith.

'The Perdue breast is a little bit smaller, and it's 85.56 percent bigger than the breast from our butcher, but 5 percent was supposed to be water.'

Smith's 'alarming' discovery comes one month after Walmart was in a multi-million dollar settlement for inflating the weight of the meat contents in its packaging.

Customers were eligible to get refunds on several chicken purchases, including 10 kinds of chicken breast products. 

'We will continue providing our customers everyday low prices to help them save money on the products they want and need,' a Walmart spokesperson told CNBC last month.

'We still deny the allegations, however we believe a settlement is in the best interest of both parties.' 

Various TikTokers who watched Smith's video have spoken out about his alarming results.

'The bucher one looks normal chicken. The other ones look like giant abnormal monster chicken,' a TikToker wrote on May 21.

At least two TikTokers joked that the extra weight in the Walmart and Perdue chicken breasts were 'growth hormones.'

However, one person wrote why there may be so much weight in the chicken breasts.

'It's injected with water plus preservatives that makes it bigger but when cooked a lot of water is released,' the TikToker wrote.

Others have agreed with that commenter and noted that heavier chicken will cost more money.

'You should definitely cook them all for the same time and weigh them after,' a TikToker suggested in their comment.

'I bet those big ones lose a lot of weight but the butcher ones won’t loose near as much.'