A 24-year-old mother has shared how she blended and drank her own placenta and shared the ‘delicious’ smoothie with her partner.
When Tiana Rose gave birth to her second child, she managed to freeze her placenta to make a fruit smoothie, saying it was actually delicious and ‘not gross.’
Sharing her recipe on TikTok, she uploaded a video of her drinking her smoothie and her clip has received 60,000 likes and more than one million views.
“Honestly, you could not tell that there was a placenta in the smoothie – it was a really nice recipe and I was very surprised by it,” Tiana Rose expressed.
“My fiancé gave it a try, completely consented, and he had the same reaction, as he thought it tasted just like a cranberry smoothie.”
The mother-of-two said she became fascinated by the idea of consuming the placenta after reading it could help with energy and iron levels, support milk production, and help with postpartum depression and anxiety.
“After we birthed the placenta into a sterilized bowl, our doula immediately started preparing it in our kitchen, as we had a home birth,” the content creator shared.
“She cut it into two centimeter cubes and popped them into an ice cube tray, before placing them in the freezer.”
To prepare the ‘delicious’ smoothie, she and her fiancé followed a recipe from a book titled The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother.
The couple gathered ingredients such as frozen mixed berries, coconut oil, pomegranate juice, chia and flax seed mix, honey, yogurt and banana before blending it with Tiana Rose’s placenta.
“Some people were really caught off guard and said the ‘what smoothie?’ But others were super supportive,” she added.
It is claimed that eating the placenta increases the quality of breast milk and lowers the risk of postpartum depression but scientists say it has no nutritional benefits for new mothers and could actually do harm.
Dr. Amos Grunebaum, an obstetrician and lead author of a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said: “As obstetricians, it’s important to tell the truth. And the truth is it’s potentially harmful and no evidence it’s beneficial, so therefore, don’t do it.”
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