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..
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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