Blood - its soo good, but how good?

[yuli]

I buy stew chunks of fresh grass-finished beef in small bags and when I take the chunks out the bag has lots or dark rich blood. I pour the blood into a shot glass and drink a shot every time. The most delicious, rich, salty, amazing drink I have ever had.  

I know blood is nutritious and has good amount of calcium, for example wild cats get most of their calcium from fresh blood not bones (most often they leave the bones for the scavengers)...but I don't know the details, nutritional databases do not list fresh grass-fed beef blood as a food (how useless).

Anyone know the nutritional data for this? I'd love to know, from the way it tastes and makes me feel, its very super-duper.

EDIT: I also pretend I am a vampire when I do this, its fun, lol

[Hannibal]

I've read the almost all of the calcium in the body is stored in bone. The rest is found in the blood.

[TylerDurden]

I find that the taste of blood from grainfed or grassfed animals is too bland for me. I do, however, love the taste of blood from my raw wild hare carcasses.

No idea re databases, I have never managed to find an entry for blood  in them.

[Hannibal]

I find that the taste of blood from grainfed or grassfed animals is too bland for me. 

Once I tried the fresh blood which squirted from the sheep's throat - the taste was rather bland; maybe it's an acquired taste, I don't know.

[yuli]

I find that the taste of blood from grainfed or grassfed animals is too bland for me.

Really? Then I must be getting some kick-ass grass-finished beef, because mine is definitely NOT bland! I love that brand of beef but even more so its blood. The flavor is complex and deep, I want mooooore.

I don't know if the taste is acquired but for me it was instant love, I started drinking it and then I dream of it. Its one of the best tasting raw animal foods to me (mind you I haven't had sheep or hare blood maybe that is blander naturally) Maybe I am a vampire heeee heee heee

[yuli]

I've read the almost all of the calcium in the body is stored in bone. The rest is found in the blood.

Yeah but bone has a worse calcium:magnesium ratio and blood has the good ratio, and the ratio is whats important.
Thats why cats, who have an important need for this ratio to be balanced, should supplemented with eggshells and not so much ground bone, cats supplemented with only ground bone in their meats and no eggshells or magnesium or fresh blood still get problems. I can only assume its also better for humans too.

[Hannibal]

I started drinking it and then I dream of it.

You're definitely amazing.

[yuli]

You're definitely amazing.

hmmmm.....Sometimes I even amaze myself, but I would say the ratio of amazing myself to not amazing myself is pretty even heh heh

[goodsamaritan]

Thanks for the tip Yuli.
Now I'm excited and would like to find a source of clean raw blood.
Maybe when I buy a whole goat.
I'll have to look for one that is healthy.

How much blood can you drink?
How long do you keep it in the refrigerator?

[Hannibal]

The blood is very prone to coagulation.
That blood from the sheep that I was talking about squirted towards my glass jar and it started to coagulate right away.

[yuli]

How much blood can you drink?

I don't know I can only get two shot-glasses maximum after I do some groceries...I'd love to actually have enough to find out how much I can drink, probably a lot!

How long do you keep it in the refrigerator?

I don't, I buy fresh meat and when I open the package at home I drink it ASAP!

The blood is very prone to coagulation.
That blood from the sheep that I was talking about squirted towards my glass jar and it started to coagulate right away.

Interesting, I have seen 3 types, the coagulated one, the watery one which probably has lots of that plasma stuff and not much flavor, and the one I like, deep, dark red color and the consistency of maybe a light coffee-cream is best I can describe it.

[Hannibal]

Interesting, I have seen 3 types, the coagulated one, the watery one which probably has lots of that plasma stuff and not much flavor, and the one I like, deep, dark red color and the consistency of maybe a light coffee-cream is best I can describe it.

That deep dark one is probably a vein blood.
Mine was arterial one - lighter in colour and less dense than vein one.

[raw]

once i've asked my farmer to send me some fresh blood, he doesn't like that. even i offer him good money for that. i'd love to bland my toddler meal with blood instead of plain water. i do need access of my own animals to get the blood. i'm sure it's nutritious. probably one small cup will be enough to drink.

[djr_81]

FWIW it sounds like you're talking about the juices in the meat yuli and not actual blood. Real blood will noticeably clot in just a couple hours time.

[yuli]

FWIW it sounds like you're talking about the juices in the meat yuli and not actual blood. Real blood will noticeably clot in just a couple hours time.

Does it clot in an air tight vacuum baggie? The meat I get is packed like that right when its butchered and sold fresh, I buy it on the day its cut up. I'll try to take a pic. of it next time, and I'll keep it out of the baggie for a couple of hours and see it it starts clotting or not. The stuff I had looks way too dark and thick to just be all meat juice (I have seen meat juice and it was kinda different in consistency), it could be the juice mixed with blood, I have no clue 

[Arthas_]

Does it clot in an air tight vacuum baggie? The meat I get is packed like that right when its butchered and sold fresh, I buy it on the day its cut up. I'll try to take a pic. of it next time, and I'll keep it out of the baggie for a couple of hours and see it it starts clotting or not. The stuff I had looks way too dark and thick to just be all meat juice (I have seen meat juice and it was kinda different in consistency), it could be the juice mixed with blood, I have no clue 

The meat I get hold of just carries juice. Last time I bought some beef, I asked the butcher to save the juices from the vacuum packaged meat (7kg). I guess I got close to 300ml. It tastes so good.