Asparagus

[YOhio]

Delicious vegetable, but boy does it do a number on the smell of urine. Wow!

[marsupial]

I love asparagus too. And actually I recently read that asparagus doesn't cause smelly pee in everyone.

Asparagus is filled with sulfur-containing amino acids that break down during digestion into six sulfur-containing compounds. These can impart a unique smell to urine as they are excreted. "It's the same sulfur group that makes skunks smell," said Barbara Hodges, a dietician with Boston University's nutrition clinic, the Evans Nutrition Group.

Scientists remain divided on why people have different urinary responses to eating asparagus. One camp thinks only about half of the population have a gene enabling us to break down the sulfurous amino acids in asparagus into their smellier components. Others think that everyone digests asparagus the same way, but only about half of us have a gene that enables us to smell the specific compounds formed in the digestion of asparagus.

I'm in the smelly pee group

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Delicious vegetable, but boy does it do a number on the smell of urine. Wow!

A neighbor kid had a science project based on this. The kid took two unlabeled jars of urine to school and had people try to guess which one he acquired after eating asparagus. He also had a chart that explained why it was that way, but none of the other kids cared about why - they just thought it was cool that this kid had two jars full of pee.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

they just thought it was cool that this kid had two jars full of pee.

That's not just cool, that's Miles Davis cool.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

A neighbor kid had a science project based on this. The kid took two unlabeled jars of urine to school and had people try to guess which one he acquired after eating asparagus. He also had a chart that explained why it was that way, but none of the other kids cared about why - they just thought it was cool that this kid had two jars full of pee.

Maybe a kid could train a dog to identify the one from the asparagus eater.

[Venkman]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Delicious vegetable, but boy does it do a number on the smell of urine. Wow!

Same with Sugar Smacks cereal , delicious but your pee smells like sugar smacks.

[nikuman]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Delicious vegetable, but boy does it do a number on the smell of urine. Wow!

Apparently (I have read) bad tasting semen as well.

I am in the not-bad-smelling pee group. I don't know about the other.