Does asparagus make your wee smell funny?

Does asparagus make your wee smell funny?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 10 71.4%
  • No..

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • I don't know / I don't eat asparagus..

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • Total voters
    14

Snerk

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In my ongoing series of how various food and drink affect your bodily functions. I am today wondering if asparagus make your wee smell weird. It certainly does to me. But not everybody report this effect..
 
It is known to do this.
 
I believe it does. But my wee smells funny anyway.

Some people say my wee smells of daffodils, or possibly sweet chestnuts, but I think they may be having me on.

Still, if they like smelling it, who am I to gainsay them?
 
I read that asparagus makes everyone's wee smell funny, but only certain people had noses that were capable of smelling it.
 
You're taking the piss now. What a question! Wee normally smells, unfunnily, of urine.
 
There was a story about them giving asparagus soup in the rations on US Navy lifeboats during the last war, with the idea that shipwrecked sailors could pee into the sea and attract fish to eat by the smell.
 
Asparagus contains an acid that when it is metabolized becames methanethiol.
This methanethiol is the responsible of this smell.
Apparently this metabolization does not happen for all people, and as Mise says, not everybody can smell it.
 
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