Weird question alert!!! Has anyone else ever noticed that after you eat asparagus...?!
Answers: your urine has a stong odor?????
Why does urine smell odd after eating asparagus? Roger Stevens investigates Asparagus, or Asparagus officinalis, is a member of the lily family and grows throughout central and southern Europe, north Africa and west and central Asia. The British asparagus season is short, with asparagus being available during the early summer from late April to early July.1
In the 18th century, a physician to the French royal family wrote in his Treatise on all sorts of foods that asparagus "eaten to Excess... causes filthy and disagreeable Smell in the Urine."2 The smell cannot be noticed in raw or cooked asparagus, so it is believed that the body converts a compound within asparagus into a metabolite, which can then be smelled in the urine. The odour is often described as the smell of rotten or boiling cabbage, or even ammonia, and is believed to be due to the presence of methyl mercaptan, also known as methanethiol, which is a sulphur containing derivative of the amino acid methionine.3
Not Weird, happens to everyone.
Yes. It's caused by the breakdown products (methanethiol, etc) of asparagine, an amino acid in asparagus. It's harmless. Some people have the gene to smell it; others don't. All people produce smelly urine after eating asparagus.
Yeah. We've known for many years. Yawn.
yes..that is normal...but I hate asparagus so I am saved
at least you know its doing a good job, its a good anti-oxidant food.
Havent noticed it and I love asparagus!! But I have heard its true
Yup, smells rancid
That was a freshman biology experiment. The majority of people have this happen.
Absolutely but more to men that to women though!
duh
its doesn't happen to all people and even weirder some people cant smell the Oder after it is produced
that is very common and asparagus is notorious for that. did you ever see Austin Powers: Goldmember? He pretends to be a peeing fountain and then he eats asparagus and everyone around him starts gagging. Or in "Election", the girls have a contest to see how long it takes to have stinky pee after eating asparagus.
Whenever we serve asparagus at family get togethers, I always leave a candle burning in the bathroom for this very purpose. Asparagus pee can literally clear out a room!
Yeah, I've noticed onions do that to me, too.
But, I still love to eat 'em both.
Wonder what it would do if I ate them together?
WOW .. it does? When did this happen????
ew and you think i got probs? nasty
Never happened to me, I'm happy to say. Maybe my body processes asparagus differently, or you ate too much asparagus at one sitting.