What does iguana taste like?

Planet Earth 2's first episode showed a thrilling scene with racer snakes rushing to catch their lunch: baby marine iguanas. Travel writer Bo Saldaña has also has iguana for lunch. read more

In my home town of Iquitos, Peru, it is totally normal to eat food that may be very exotic to others including delicacies like roasted lizard, lowland paca stew, monkey, wild bird, insects, grubs (suri), some species of turtle and snake and especially roasted iguana. read more

While I have never tasted it, I have been told by several who have that it (like everything else) tastes like chicken. In fact, I have heard it referred to as"the chicken of the trees", similar to the tuna slogan"chicken of the sea". read more