Is it possible to test your nutrient levels by tasting your blood?

I cut my finger on broken glass and licked it to try and encourage it to stop bleeding. The thought came to me, as it often does at times like this: blood tastes different at different times. Is there some way of gauging your blood composition by taste? Sometimes it is saltier, sometimes it tastes more of iron, sometimes it is more watery. It would be great to be able to interpret that somehow.

I cut my finger while preparing breakfast, having eaten nothing for the past 12 hours, so it's little surprise that the blood tasted mostly like water with a hint of iron: there was nothing in my system at that point. I'd love to be able to draw more nuanced conclusions about my health this way - like, knowing whether I needed to reduce or increase my salt intake, or whether I had high or low white blood cells, etc. The only thing is, most of sites about 'tasting blood' are dedicated to vampirism, and that's really not my jam. Your thoughts...?

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This is too gross for me to even contemplate. 2
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  • Ummitsstillme

    Only if you are a sommelier.

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  • LloydAsher

    Depends what you are trying to taste.

    For the grand majority of us it will just taste like iron since iron is abundant in the blood cell (or whatever theres just iron in the blood)

    Now tasting urine on the other hand is how people in the ye olden days tested for diabetes. I'm sure the OP can pick up a red cross book from the 1900s and find quirky things to test your blood with.

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  • olderdude-xx

    While you might get a sense of sweet blood (glucose level) if you are diabetic and have extremely high (and unhealthy) blood sugar... you are unlikely to be able to determine anything else that matters to your health.

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  • litelander8

    Are you comparing it to other blood samples?

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  • Somenormie

    Gross.

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