Latest Health Trend: Pig Placenta Drink
April 12th, 2008
CScout Japan reports on the latest trend in Japan: zero calorie Placenta 10,000 jelly drink. Known as a FOSHU - food for a specific health use, Japanese women swear by its rejuvenating powers. The 10,000 refers to 10,000 milligrams of placenta per bottle - that’s a whopping 10g! CScout also recounts this delightful exchange with a Placenta 10,000 salesman:
Me: This has placenta in it?
Rep: Yes!
Me: From…
Rep: Pigs.
Me: Oh.
Rep: You know how placenta usually smells really bad?
Me: Mmm…I can guess.
Rep: Well, ours doesn’t have any smell at all!
Rather disappointingly, the drink is peach-flavoured - apparently the young female market isn’t willing to suffer the true bloody taste of raw placenta for their beauty. However, if this doesn’t meet your daily fix of placenta-craving, there’s also Placenta 400,000, boasting almost half a kilo of flesh per bottle. Tasty.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Grant Gould | April 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
In terms of structure and tissues, placenta’s approximately the same as liver, right? Seems like this is just a fancy (and overpriced) way to talk people into eating liver again, with likely many of the same the health benefits and risks.
2. Peter Peterman | April 14th, 2008 at 3:06 am
MMM I LOVE EAT PLACENTAS YUMMMIIIIY
3. Bill Preston | April 14th, 2008 at 10:11 am
But a significant proportion of people have reported health benefits from the drink - one study showed marked improvements for as many as eighty placenta them.
(N.b. - First half of sentence unsubstantiated and just a cheap setup for someone else’s cheap punchline)
4. Mark’s Daily Apple &hellip | April 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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