Asparagus Pee

[steph_r]

Well though I do not tend to stop for a quick sniff of pee after eating asparagus, I can't say a funny smell as ever jumped out at me.

I'll be sure to check next time I eat asparagus.

 

Is it similar to how only some people can smell cyanide?

[chilehed]

Oh, I'm definitely a 5.0 on the scale, in college I drove a few guys out of the showers one evening after a good helping of fresh spears. I always wondered what the chemistry was.

 

I'll pass on the canned vs. fresh experiment, though. I'll eat almost anything, but IMVHO canned asparagus is an abomination.

[CerebralEcstasy]

While all of you have been going off about the smell of the urine, no one has mentioned the benefits of eating asparagus.

 

For women who suffer from Urinary Tract Infections, asparagus increases the volume of urine put out, and flushes bacteria from the Urinary Tract.

 

Physicians and health practitioners actually recommend boiling the asparagus and drinking the water in order to achieve the full benefit.

 

Asparagus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

(The aforementioned site also discusses how only 40% of test subjects actually smell the sulfur based thiols produced in the urine)

[InfiniteNow]

While all of you have been going off about the smell of the urine, no one has mentioned the benefits of eating asparagus.

 

While I do very much thank you for the information you've provided, I must point out that discussing the scent of asparagus in urine was the original intent of the thread. :note:

[CerebralEcstasy]

:note: True. I will eat asparagus, and report back if there is a stench. Hmmn are these people actually doing a controlled experiment?

 

Perhaps there is something that they are eating along with the asparagus that makes it more potent? I have my hypotheses.......I must test.

 

On a side note....

 

[/bANANA]If you'd suffered from those damn UTI's, you'd be screaming information about asparagus from the treetops, or in random blogs about asparagus pee!!!! *laughs* [bANANA]

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[InfiniteNow]

:lol::hihi::lol:

 

Cranberries, to my knowledge, have no such scent. ;)

 

 

Cheers. :cup:

[Michaelangelica]

It seems other people are interested too.

Asparagus and smelly pee was first researched in 1820, and the French novelist Marcel Prost famously remarked that asparagus "transforms my chamber-pot into a flask of perfume".

* Asparagus has a diuretic effect, and asparagine, an amino acid present in asparagus may be the source of its diuretic properties, and when excreted, gives urine a strong odor. In another study at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Birmingham in the UK, the pungent urinary odor produced by certain individuals within a few hours of eating asparagus has been shown to be due to a combination of up to six sulphur-containing alkyl compounds identified as methanethiol, dimethyl sulphide, dimethyl disulphide, bis-(methylthio)methane, dimethyl sulphoxide and dimethyl sulphone.

 

* In yet another study, it was determined that everyone’s urine has an odor after ingesting asparagus, and that not everybody has the ability to smell it.

Asparagus Pee

[InfiniteNow]

Anyone else with sticky piddle after eating the green spears?

[Michaelangelica]

Reviving this old chestnut?

What more can be said?

 

Australian Asparagus Council

 

 

American Botanical Council: Search Results

[mynah]

I guess the differences in female and male asparagosity may be due to (a) men being in a better position to perceive the smell and (:) women being less likely to discuss it!:)