Everytime I taste blood it gives the distinctive flavor of copper. Every sci-fi novel I read mentions a copper taste in their mouth, so I know my taste buds aren't messed up.
What element inside the human body makes your blood have the distinctive flavor of copper?
2006-07-17 12:42:48 · 20 answers · asked by DarkImpact 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It tastes like Iron actually, because of the haemoglobin (which contains Iron) in your blood.
Your books probably say copper because presumably copper and iron taste alike, and more people are likely to have tasted copper due to copper pipes being used for drinking water, so they know what copper tastes like.
2006-07-17 12:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 35⤊ 2⤋
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Why does blood taste like copper?
Everytime I taste blood it gives the distinctive flavor of copper. Every sci-fi novel I read mentions a copper taste in their mouth, so I know my taste buds aren't messed up.
What element inside the human body makes your blood have the distinctive flavor of copper?
2015-08-10 17:41:30 · answer #3 · answered by Romonda 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blood, to me, tastes metallic. I don't have the frame of reference to narrow the metallic taste down to copper, but I've always assumed that the taste came from the red blood cells and the iron within them. There is a plasma protein, called ceruloplasm, which transports copper in your blood, so perhaps that is where the copper taste is coming from.
2006-07-17 17:23:24 · answer #4 · answered by almicrogirl 5 · 9⤊ 2⤋
The better question is why does copper taste like blood?
2006-07-17 13:34:17 · answer #5 · answered by andrewtm78 2 · 27⤊ 2⤋
Blood has a metallic-like taste to it because of minerals like iron, zince etc... the easiest way to describe this is to say it's like copper because most people have put pennies in their mouth at some point when they were little children. "you can't honestly say that unless you've tried copper before." Or blood right?
2016-03-18 05:55:42 · answer #6 · answered by Carla 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some creatures have copper based blood my question would be what blood are you tasting hmmmmmmmm? you must be tasting a true blue blood from a copper base ? your or somebodys elses you not fooling me you monster
2006-07-17 12:48:34 · answer #7 · answered by abramelin_the_wise_mage 3 · 2⤊ 15⤋
hi yaar blood taste is like coupper because blood make from hemo globin there are three anzime in hemo and globin. mix of anzime taste is like cupperpearitise cufes2 so blood taste is like copper
2006-07-17 18:16:38 · answer #8 · answered by surender kaswan rajasthani jat 1 · 4⤊ 9⤋
because of all the vitamins and minerals and other things that flow through your blood, and its more of an iron taste, than copper just to let you know.
2006-07-17 12:46:28 · answer #9 · answered by immortal_dreamzz 3 · 12⤊ 3⤋
Probably due to the iron (Fe+) that cleaves to the heme groups in the hemoglobin. Without it, the oxygen (02) molecules would be unable to attach themselves to the hemoglobin. I'm just curious as to why you've tasted blood and copper enough times to be able to make that paralell assessment.
2006-07-17 12:50:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 7⤋