Every time I taste blood, I get a distinct copper flavor. I know my taste senses aren’t screwed up since every sci-fi fiction I’ve read describes a copper flavor in their tongue.
What ingredient inside the human body gives your blood its particular copper flavor?
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Actually, it tastes like iron because of the haemoglobin (which includes iron) in your blood.
Copper is probably mentioned in your books since copper and iron presumably taste similar, and more individuals are likely to have tasted copper owing to copper pipes being used for drinking water, so they know what copper tastes like.
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What causes the taste of copper in blood?
Every time I taste blood, I get a distinct copper flavor. I know my taste senses aren’t screwed up since every sci-fi fiction I’ve read describes a copper flavor in their tongue.
What ingredient inside the human body gives your blood its particular copper flavor?
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Blood tastes metallic to me. I don’t have the context to narrow down the metallic taste to copper, but I’ve always imagined that the flavor was caused by red blood cells and the iron inside them. Ceruloplasm is a plasma protein that carries copper in your blood, so it’s possible that’s where the copper taste is coming from.
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The most interesting question is, why does copper taste like blood?
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Blood has a metallic-like taste due to minerals such as iron, zinc, and so on… the simplest way to explain this is that it tastes like copper since most people have placed pennies in their mouths as toddlers. “You can’t say that honestly until you’ve tasted copper before.” Or is it blood?
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Some species have copper-based blood; my question is, what blood are you tasting? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm You must be drinking a real blue blood with a copper base. You’re not fooling me, you monster, whether it’s yours or someone else’s.
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Hello yaar, blood tastes like coupper because blood is made of hemo globin, which contains three anzimes. Because the taste of anzime is similar to that of copperpearitise cufes2, the taste of blood is similar to that of copper.
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because of all the vitamins, minerals, and other substances that circulate through your blood, and it tastes more like iron than copper, just to let you know.
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This is most likely due to the iron (Fe+) that cleaves to the heme groups in hemoglobin. Without it, oxygen (02) molecules would not be able to bond to hemoglobin. I’m simply puzzled why you’ve tasted blood and copper so many times to be able to draw that parallel.