Taste: they taste the way one would expect raw/uncooked meat/livers/blood/hearts/etc to taste, out of necessity for monsters with diet compulsions. Ditto with cooking and how cooked meats taste.

Side Effects: Just the ones detailed in the Bestiary/Sigil Info.

Eating a Husk: Partially answered in the TDM FAQ, substantial damage to a Husk causes a monster to spawn. Cutting/biting one up to eat would therefore be an impossibility.