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Why does your pee smell funny when you eat aspargus? Are there any other foods that do that?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    When you eat asparagus it produces methanethiol. Methanethiol is made up of sulfur, hydrogen and carbon. This is the same substance in rotten eggs and what gives paper mills thier unique boquet.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    interior the 18th century, a doctor to the French royal kin wrote in his Treatise on all styles of meals that asparagus "eaten to extra... causes filthy and grotesque scent interior the Urine."2 The scent can not be spoke of in raw or cooked asparagus, so it really is theory that the body converts a compound interior of asparagus right into a metabolite, that could then be smelled interior the urine. The odour is typically defined because the scent of rotten or boiling cabbage, or maybe ammonia, and is theory to be because of the presence of methyl mercaptan, also frequent as methanethiol, it really is a sulphur containing spinoff of the amino acid methionine. inspect something of the article on the cyber web website decrease than:

  • 1 decade ago

    It's the sulphuric amino acids compounds in the asparagus that make your urine smell different. Other high sulphur foods cause the same effect, like cabbage.

  • 1 decade ago

    it is the way your body brekas it down. as far as smells yeah. try drinking a 40oz or more blueraspberry slushie. everything turns blue and smells

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  • 1 decade ago

    Try eating beetroot, your wee turns red, scared me to death first time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Good Lord, Honey.....

  • 1 decade ago

    everything that you put into your body can change color/odour of your urine

  • 1 decade ago

    how about coffee.....

    strange

    =)

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