People are only just realising how black pudding is really made

Black pudding lovers have been put off after realising how the age old delicacy is really made.

Viewers watching an episode of How It’s Made on the Discovery Channel were given a detailed insight into the process behind the fry-up feature piece and the ingredients that go into it.

In the resurfaced clip, viewers tucking in to the tasty blood sausage were given a rude awakening from their blissful ignorance as they were reminded of its stomach churning origins.

“Its roots are in ancient times, when people wouldn’t waste any part of a slaughtered animal, not even its blood,” the narrator said.

“Black pudding also contains several dry ingredients; barley, allspice, dried onions, spices and other seasonings, and wheat flour. The pig’s blood is also in dried form.”

As well as ‘turning the ingredients into a rich colour’, the blood also ‘makes black pudding a rich source of iron and protein’, the narrator adds.

The video showed a cook submerging cotton bags filled with barley to be left overnight to swell.

Viewers are then informed one-third of the ingredients used to make black pudding is pudding mix, another third is pig’s blood and the final third is meat fat. The ingredients are then pumped into a nylon casing before being stapled closed in what’s called the ‘stuffing line’.

The process is completed after the concoction has been steam cooked. The detail into the method behind the delicacy proved a little much for some people to stomach.

“Just the thought is actually sending chills down my spine,” one person wrote. “Not saying it’s gross but that giant pork cloud was brutal,” another added.

“Makes my stomach turn now, but when I was a kid I used to eat this almost every day with my Dad!,” someone else added. Another said: “As a vegetarian I seriously cannot imagine eating anything more rank.”

However, the video was not enough to put off some die hard black pudding fans, as one wrote: “I LOVE black pudding!”