What causes that weird but oddly intriguing aroma in my urine after I eat aspara!
Question:
What causes that weird but oddly intriguing aroma in my urine after I eat asparagus? Am I diseased?
Answers:
Nope, everybody has that after eating asparagus, also, it may look greenish. It's from the fibers and such it the vegetable.
Contrary to popular belief, persons who experience a strong odor coming from their urine after eating asparagus are not in any danger from eating this vegetable. A variety of different chemicals-all breakdown products of asparagus-can be found in the urine in connection with the "asparagus smell". These chemicals generally fall within a chemical category called mercaptans (or to use a more modern term, thiols). They include dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl sulfoxide, bis-(methylthio)methane, S-methyl thioacrylate, S-methyl-3-(metyhylthio)thiopr... and dimethyl sulphone. Different people form different amounts of these compounds after eating asparagus, and many people cannot smell the odor, even when they produce the compounds.