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What color is shrimp blood?

Shrimp blood is actually blue!

This is because shrimp, like many other crustaceans and insects, have a copper-based protein called hemocyanin in their blood instead of iron-based hemoglobin. Hemocyanin binds oxygen and turns blue when oxygenated.

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