How much does one's diet really affect the odor of one's farts/stool?

Question

Isn't a great deal of flatulent odor based on heredity?

Answer 1

Foods affect odor, consistency and makeup of your stool/flatulence.

Heredity determines how your body digests food and processes it. Some people may have a better constitution than others and therefore foods like broccoli, onions, beans and other starches and comples carbohydrates don't affect them as much. Others may find that one trip to the chinese buffet could cause them to let one loose that would strip the varnish off a foot locker. :)

Internal pills like bean-o, imodium and such, are enzymatic catalysts that are designed to help the body process foods so that gas production is less, and what is produced isn't as volitile.

And thank god because I couldn't give up chinese food for anything. :)

Similar enzymatic catalysts can be found in odor sprays like approach (www.approachit.net) and sometimes they can be taken in a drink. Either way, all they do is help your body process the food you eat, so that the food you eat can't cause as much odor as it wants.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Both... If you eat more of certian kinds of food, it will effect it one way or another depending on the person... There are some foods that effect almost all people in being extra gassy... But the actual smell is both in what you eat, and you specific combination of bacteria that's living in your instenstine...

Answer 3

It's based on the gassy foods we eat

Answer 4

diffferent food affect you very mush depending what you are eating and drinking

Answer 5

not much.