What is the red liquid that comes out of steak?

Chef's answer
Instead, what you're looking at is a combination of water, which makes up about 75 per cent of meat, and a protein found in muscle tissue called myoglobin. If that name sounds familiar, it's probably because it sounds a bit like hemoglobin, the protein that transports oxygen in blood..
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