• Question: why does blood taste weird?

    Asked by manisingh to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      From memory, it’s because there’s a lot of iron in it (part of the haemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen in the red blood cells and gives it the red colour). I also seem to remember, that if you are deficient in a mineral then you don’t mind the taste but it tastes nasty if you don’t need more of it…

    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Probably because our body is telling us were not supposed to eat it!
      Blood has a high iron content which explains that sharp metallic taste.

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