Make your own (drinkable) blood!

Look what we made today - blood!!

The recipe is from the Horrible Science Handbook's "Famously Foul Experiments" by Nick Arnold. Billy picked the grossest experiment from the entire book of course :)

The one on the left is the non-oxygenated blood from the veins, on the right is the oxygenated blood from the arteries.

If you want to do it yourself, here's the recipe:

• 2 dessertspoons flour
• 1 dessertspoon golden syrup (or corn syrup)
• red & green food colouring
• 100 ml warm water

Mix flour with the warm water and sir until the flour has dissolved. Add the golden syrup and stir well until mixed. Add 1 tablespoon of red food colouring and stir. This is the oxygenated blood.

Pour half the blood into a glass.

Now add a drop of green food colouring to the remainder and pour into a 2nd glass. This is the non-oxygenated blood.

Voila!

Apparently you are able to "drink the blood" but we declined that portion of the experiment :)