How do you like your placenta?

I've known that a placenta is edible, and to some, a delicacy, ever since watching the old-school Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall programme TV Dinners. But I did not know the practice had such high profile admirers until an article in today's guardian, which reveals Tom Cruise planned to eat his daughter Suri's (eeeeeeeeewwwww).

But what nutritionally do you get from a placenta? Does it pack lots of flavour?

Unless the Mum happens to be particularly stoical, it is unlikely to be organic. But on the other hand, it is a good way to avoid waste.

The recipes on the Internet are disappointing. A good meat recipe should have the meat as the principle ingredient, rather than a constituent. You shouldn't add meat to a dish just because you can. Then again, I've never gorged on my new born infant's placenta, so what little I know.

Here is a recipe for placenta pate, a dish TV Dinners found was not to OFCOM's taste.