why is poo brown ?

Answer 1

Because it would be better than being pink?

Answer: The thing that makes (ahem) fecal matter brown is a potent brownish-yellow pigment called bilirubin, which is found in the bile. It's what is left over when red blood cells die off and decompose, as they normally do throughout your life.

Bilirubin is taken out of the blood by the liver. There it's concentrated and shunted around some until it winds up in the intestines and gets excreted.

Answer 2

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Dear Scott:

Wow, finally a fun question. I guess. I don't know. Hmmm.... Nope.

Your poo is brown because of the accumulation of used-up red blood cells that are excreted by your body, along with oxidized bile from your liver and gall bladder. Poo isn't always brown all the time. Notice that in general, poo tends to be brownish, ranging from light brown to dark brown, depending on your diet. Having said that, don't try to adjust your diet so you can poop flouresent green or something like that. If your poop is glowing, you better get to a real doctor right away.

Eating a lot of orange food will not make you poop orange. Sometimes eating lots of vegetables high in iron might make your poop take on a greenish tinge.

Make sure you wash your hands after pooping, OK?
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Answer 3

food comes in all different colors and like paint if you mix the colors it always comes out brown. If you ate only red food, poo would be red.

Answer 4

Sometimes it's green and black too. But it's never a very nice, bright, shiny color, is it.

Answer 5

have pepto bismo then its black,or if ill its white

Answer 6

Why is the sky blue ?????