# How Would Human Yolk Sac Taste? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 12, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723 "2004-05-12T03:06:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/1 "2004-05-12T03:06:24Z")
Ok, it’s a disturbing question. But it’s been kicking around ever since I saw an ultrasound. Embryos live off a yolk sac for the first few weeks. Couldja boil it? Would it be like a chicken egg in taste? Is this post the most disgusting and horrifying SDMB thread ever? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/2 "2004-05-12T03:17:18Z")
Poached, scrambled or over easy? ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/3 "2004-05-12T03:24:08Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Poached, scrambled or over easy? I was thinking your standard boiled. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/4 "2004-05-12T03:28:52Z")
Cheezus Christmas, man! Does your alphabet only contain 23 letters? Where’s the **T-M-I** , man? Where’s the **T-M-I**?!?! ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/5 "2004-05-12T03:52:48Z")
What? You don’t remember? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/6 "2004-05-12T04:05:15Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > What? You don’t remember? Oh… good one! “Ummm…Meaty!” ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/7 "2004-05-12T06:21:55Z")
Tastes like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/8 "2004-05-12T06:47:12Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > What? You don’t remember? I don’t think I had taste buds back then. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/9 "2004-05-12T07:30:07Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > I was thinking your standard boiled. Um… we don’t have shells? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/10 "2004-05-12T07:57:38Z")
Oh God. This made me think of the pan-fried semen thread! You may just get an answer here. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/11 "2004-05-12T10:32:31Z")
A lot like blood I assume? > [@](#): > > Upon attachment, the embryoblast begins to develop into the embryo and the amniotic sac, a membrane filled with amniotic fluid, forms around it. The amniotic sac helps cushion the embryo and keeps it at a constant temperature. The yolk sac will also form, providing an initial source of blood cells for the embryo (Macmillan, 1995). ``` http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:N6vntWhFWnEJ:www.cmste.uncc.edu/Document%2520Hold/Human%2520Embryonic%2520Development.doc+%22human+embryonic+development%22&hl=en ``` ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/12 "2004-05-13T02:46:55Z")
The yolk sac is just that, a sac. It doesn’t fill with yolk in humans. It’s a thickish membrane which (as noted above) is making a fetal blood supply, and it is involved in processing nutrients that pass THROUGH it from the maternal blood supply. It doesn’t have any nutrients or yolk itself. It probably tastes like bloody paper. mischievous ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Cooper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Agent\_Cooper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Cooper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/13 "2004-05-13T03:28:31Z")
keep trying… like duffer said, this is _not_ the grossest thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-human-yolk-sac-taste/244723/14 "2004-05-13T04:08:25Z")
> [@mischievous](#): > > It probably tastes like **bloody paper.** Band name!