This man Nick Baines was found eating his wife placenta after collecting it form the hospital......
Many men hold the hand of partners
during childbirth, but one man has taken his involvement with the experience a
step further – by eating his wife’s placenta.
Nick Baines took the next
leap as he left the hospital with his wife, newborn son and a doggy bag with ‘a
few cheeky steaks of placenta’.
Keen to find out how it would taste,
the Guardian journalist decided to indulge in placentophagy, the act of eating
the placenta.
While still frowned upon by some –
the bewildered surgeon performing his wife’s C-section asked: ‘How are you
going to cook it…with spices?’ – eating the placenta for its apparent health
benefits is growing in popularity.
Mr Baines searched online for
recipes to best ingest his wife’s discharge, with an initial attempt at a
placenta smoothie proving unsuccessful.
The meat-filled drink ‘looked rank’,
despite being blended with coconut water and banana for 10 minutes.
In his own words: ‘Up front was the
distinct flavour of banana, superseded by a metallic, bloody backnote.
‘It had a mineral earthiness to it
and tasted exactly like the delivery room had smelled.’
He finally found success with
seasoning the meat and cooking it served in a taco, which apparently tasted
‘rich, with a beef like quality.’
‘It was tender, kind of like roast
brisket and not dissimilar to Texas BBQ.'
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