The Placenta 10000 drink from Nihon Sofuken is a popular new drink in Japan. It's supposed to taste like tender peaches. Yet, despite the fact that I've never tried it, my imagination and previous experience with Placenta products has already made it revolting.

Fellow Gadget Labber Rob Beschizza agrees: "One does not think "What a delicious, refreshing drink that would make," when one Googles "placenta.'"



According to myth, placenta has regenerative properties and is usually placed in dedicated areas. For example, if you suffer from a depigmentation ailment, you're supposed to dab a little bit of it on the skin and the color will fill in after a few weeks. I once saw this experiment in person and the placenta-based alcohol mix on the skin was so strong that it burned the patient at first. After two weeks, the white splotch was gone.

However, using the uterine lining of human beings (or other beings) is usually regulated and considered illegal in some areas. Hard to believe, right?

We attempted to read the Google-translated Nihon Sofuken page to find out how they get their placenta, but it only caused us more worry. Here are two machine-translated/bungled sentences:

"Fully managed their health. However, not their domestic dolphin?Center at who and the raw materials and do me.”

"Foul whom soon corruption and the reasons for their blood who you will completely removed."

We hoped that there was no whaling and dolphin-whacking going on with this product. Then, we realized (and with the help of some readers) that we had bungled our own use of the translation app. The page is Japanese, and we'd used the Chinese app. Oh, man.

Here's what we found on the correct Japanese-to-English translation:

"strong aroma of corruption and causing blood to the complete removal."

"erased the distinctive odor of the beast, ?????????? peach flavor."

A little more clear, but still kinda creepy and obscure. At least we know that the animal placenta came from pigs, which we eat already. This does not make eating placenta any more appetizing.

Still, that mistake didn't stop our minds from exploring the possibilities. Here's Rob again, speculating wildly on what the product page really says:

Once the offspring is removed and disposed of, our highly-trained specialists harvest the placenta before it comes into contact with air.

This high-tech eviscerative process ensures the freshest and most delicious placenta.

People will do anything to look youthful.

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