2007-04-10 08:29:38 · 5 answers · asked by halloweenbride97 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Asparagus contains a high concentration of folic acid. I believe this is what is responsible for the common odor associated with after-eating-asparagus urine.
2007-04-10 10:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always heard and read that some people just have this "asparagus gene". Like half the population has it. It has to do with how the body metabolizes the asparagus. For example, my husband has it, and I don't. There's a HUGE difference, and you can tell when you share a bathroom!
2007-04-10 08:39:42 · answer #2 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interior the 18th century, a wellbeing practitioner to the French royal kinfolk wrote in his Treatise on all forms of meals that asparagus "eaten to extra... motives filthy and grotesque smell interior the Urine."2 The smell can't be observed in uncooked or cooked asparagus, so that's believed that the physique converts a compound interior of asparagus right into a metabolite, that may then be smelled interior the urine. The odour is in lots of cases defined as a results of fact the smell of rotten or boiling cabbage, or perhaps ammonia, and is assumed to be as a results of presence of methyl mercaptan, additionally ordinary as methanethiol, that's a sulphur containing derivative of the amino acid methionine. examine out the the remainder of the object on the internet website below:
2016-10-21 13:25:35 · answer #3 · answered by croes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha Ha... my husband always likes to comment on this when we have eaten asparagus. I wish I knew the reason...
2007-04-10 08:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by missbellacherie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you smelling your pee?
2007-04-10 08:37:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋