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Peach flavored placenta
Categories: Pregnancy & Birth, Eating & Nutrition, Weird But True
Eager for the great taste of placenta but not planning on giving birth any time soon? Well, have no fear, the Japanese have come through for you. Nihon Sofuken offers Placenta 1000, a peach-flavored, jelly drink that contains 10,000mg of placenta in each $8 serving. Yes, you read that right -- 10 grams of placenta in each serving.So, you ask, where do they get all this placenta, especially since hospitals have been known to keep them for themselves? Well, humans aren't the only animals that have placentas; it turns out a whole lot of mammals do, including pigs. Yep, these drinks contain pig placenta. Pig placenta flavored with peaches. Yum.
Now, before you get too weirded out, bear in mind that placentophagy is extremely common among other animals and there are those who claim significant benefits for humans, including increased breast milk supply and reduced chance of postpartum depression. The Japanese, however, are apparently drinking it to enhance their beauty.
Personally, I think you're welcome to drink just about anything you like, but I'll stick to water and the occasional glass of merlot.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
isisaquaria 4-11-2008 @ 3:09PM
GROSS
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Ethel 4-11-2008 @ 3:32PM
I'm not sure men, or women for that matter, really want to start drinking placenta. There is some evidence that using things such as placenta enriched hair products and skin lotion (look around at your pharmacy, you'll find them), which contain quite a lot of estrogen and progesterone, can raise those hormone levels in the user. Leave placenta eating to the moms that birthed them.
Other then that, it's just protein. We eat eggs all the time!
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Kellie 4-11-2008 @ 4:33PM
i just threw up in my mouth.
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Meagan 4-11-2008 @ 6:23PM
I adopted a pregnant cat about a year ago and in the course of researching what I needed to do to help her give birth (nothing apparently) I found out that cats eat the placenta(s?) after giving birth... get all the nutrients out of them or something. I guess that's interesting but my reaction was, and remains, wow, glad I'm not a cat.
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