• Question: What food or drink makes your wee the most smelly?

    Asked by charlesdarwin to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Asparagus I think?! and sugar puffs 🙂

    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      The Asparagus part is really interesting, in the same way that you can have earlobes that are attached to your head and ones that aren’t (have a look around your classroom and see), there are some people who can’t smell the difference in wee after eating asparagus and about half of the people don’t actually have a change in the smell of their wee after eating it! http://www.wisegeek.com/why-does-asparagus-make-some-peoples-urine-smell-funny.htm Ah genetics in action!

      Also strong coffee can make your wee smell funny too.

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