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Is there such thing as dirty blood?

Chem experts: what non-poison substance(s) could you add to fake blood to make it taste like the real thing?

  • I'm writing a short story about a hoax, and I need the police in the story to be put off the track for awhile by making fake blood taste like real blood. Real blood has a unique metallic taste. (You know how a cop sometimes dips a finger into a pool of what looks like blood to taste it?)

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    your fake blood should not only taste like real blood but also have colour like blood . Therefore, concentrated solution of ferric chloride will look like blood and is non poisous to taste.. Hence, ferric chloride solution can be used.

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I would use copper and a trace of salt. Tom

Regius Filius Deus

mildly basic sodium hydroxide solutions have a metallic taste which reminds one of blood.

Daniel F

Why not have your villain use pig's blood. If this person is able to go out of the way to mix up a fake blood concoction, it might be easier for him to obtain pig or cow's blood. I don't know a single cop that would taste from an unknown pool of blood. Cops nowadays will carry latex gloves to avoid contact with body fluids.

hopsplat

I hope your story takes place in a pre-AIDS awareness era. I doubt that any cop or investigator today would do a taste test on a blood sample to quickly judge in the field whether a substance is blood due to concerns about disease.

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