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- Dec 28, 2014
As far as eating placenta, isn't the placenta made up of waste from the baby so in fact they are chowing down on baby shit?
No, it's the pseudo-organ that provides nutrition and oxygen to the growing fetus. Also, like a kidney, it filters the blood and removes waste products. Fetuses don't eat, so there is not very much shit, but that which is consists of cast off cells from the intestines and goes into the amniotic fluid. That's that nasty green new baby shit. And there's also urine. For the same reason, not much.
I'd guess nutritionally it would be something like organ meat.
There's probably nothing wrong with it, but I've never heard rave reviews of human placenta as the most delicious thing ever, so I think I'll pass. I'd have to be married to some crazy hippie who insists on it as some kind of fucked up bonding experience to actually do it. So I don't think it's going to happen.