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    Eating the Placenta

    Sara Pereira is a pre and post-natal massage therapist and a licensed  placenta encapsulation specialist .  She dehydrates the placenta and pulverizes it into capsules.  There is no data or research behind ingesting the placenta, but it's practiced widely in Asian cultures.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Sara Pereira is a pre and post-natal massage therapist and a licensed placenta encapsulation specialist. She dehydrates the placenta and pulverizes it into capsules. There is no data or research behind ingesting the placenta, but it's practiced widely in Asian cultures.

    Good Food contributor Eddie Lin cooked and ate his wife's placenta. Read his story here.

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    The full episode

    2 of 8
    Best of 2010; Favorite Tacos; Eating Placenta; La Cevicheria
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 6:42Eating the PlacentaYou’re reading this
    3. 12:40LA's Own Acorn-Fed Heritage Pigs
    4. 23:07La Cevicheria
    5. 30:12Favorite Tacos
    6. 38:46Dim Sum Truck Ride-Along
    7. 44:58The Waffleizer
    8. 48:48Seven Courses of Goat
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