Is it true that in some cultures they eat placenta soup?

Question

Is it true that in some cultures they eat placenta soup?

Answer 1

Yes , its very true .

Here is some more infomation :

http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2005/...

Tastes of motherhood

Shanghai Star. 2005-06-02

A RESTAURANT in Harbin of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reportedly offers a "placenta feast" which has attracted many diners.

In order to remove people's fear of contacting infections from the placentas, the restaurant shows its guests test reports for each one to prove it is safe for eating. Staff at the restaurant bring the placenta for guests to examine before cooking to convince them it is a real placenta.

Two kinds of cooking methods are available - one involves steaming the placenta and making it into soup, the other option is to have it made into dumplings.

The placentas the restaurant uses are all bought from a hospital.

In the south of the country, meanwhile, some soup-loving Cantonese people enjoy placenta soup, seasoned with ginger, jujubes and several other Chinese herbs. A hospital's canteen even sells the soup at four yuan (50US cents) per portion. A cube of red meat floating in the broth is actually placenta.

Traders in Guangdong Province sell large fresh placentas for about 100 yuan (US$12) each and dried ones for 130 yuan (US$16).

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Answer 2

Yes, human placenta to boot. Very high in protein and vitamins, and anti-oxidants.

Answer 3

eww -- disgusting!

Answer 4

all over the world people eat the placenta, in the USA it is often freeze dried and put into capsules...it is of a natural defense to post partum depression and deficiencies caused by childbirth oddly enough, the human is the ONLY animal that doesnt routinely eat the placenta...so technically we are the strange ones if you think of it that way

Answer 5

just wanted you to know i'm throwing up now

Answer 6

yep

and brains and testicles

Answer 7

I saw pork uteri for sale at the meat counter at a very large Chinese grocery.  Right next to beef pizzle.  No joke.