MFP Poll: Asparagus... Does it?

Maximus

Results will be calcuated and confirmed by an independent auditor.

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

Not for me. No odor changes at all.

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SofaKingRad_II

Yep.

FatFreeFrolicking

Mmm… asparagus.

goldthistime

Yes.

nilbogger

Yes, even a very small serving.

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adamitri

wrapped in bacon and covered in honey balsamic vinegar sauce.

TheBigFb

it does, but sure caffine does the same, beer etc. You Sir, just like smelling peoples piss

InForBacon

I call it asparapee

daw0518

I loooove asparagus, but I don't eat it enough to notice any changes.

FitForeverAgain

Funny thing is the fact that it makes EVERYONE's urine smell funky. But only about 25% of us have the genetic benefit of being able to SMELL it. That's right, everybody breaks down the sulfuric amino acids, but only some us can smell it due to having a specific gene set. I'm one of them...

goldthistime

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk wrote: »

Not for me. No odor changes at all.

Never googled to confirm or deny, but I heard that it's not that your urine odour does not change after eating asparagus, it is that you can't detect the difference. Do you have a significant other that you could get to test out this maybe-myth?

avoidtheclapp107

yes! Even if a eat just a little bit...and it's only 10 minutes later.

TheBigFb

How is that Funny? Everyone having a bang off there piss? klol

ChoiceNotChance

Absolutely- within a few minutes of eating it. @SpeSHul-Snowflake- you're just not paying attention to your pee.

VoodooChummy

The change is noticeable almost immediately.

Alidecker

One bite and I notice the change

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SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

goldthistime wrote: »

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk wrote: »

Not for me. No odor changes at all.

Never googled to confirm or deny, but I heard that it's not that your urine odour does not change after eating asparagus, it is that you can't detect the difference. Do you have a significant other that you could get to test out this maybe-myth?

I haven't followed the studies in a long time, but the last I had read, is that it wasn't theat simple. There are some who are able to smell in others but not their own, and some who can smell in their own and in others both. That there were some who excrete and some who don't. So, they determined it was a complex problem that required more study.

I throw out the disclaimer that I was a freshwater ecologist and invertebrates were more my forte then asparagus piss, and I don't closely follow developments in the genetics of asparagus piss.

Marx_MI

Love it. Eat it weekly. Yes. Within 10min

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

dldoddy wrote: »

Absolutely- within a few minutes of eating it. @SpeSHul-Snowflake- you're just not paying attention to your pee.

Maybe, I notice it in others when I am in a public restroom, but I never notice it in my own.

knittnponder

Yes.

PwrLftr82

nilbogger wrote: »

Yes, even a very small serving.

Yup. One bite and I gross myself out.

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Lalalindaloo

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-asparagus-makes-your-urine-smell-49961252/?no-ist

Apparently, it can be the ability to detect the scent AND differences in how the body processes the acid that determine if it happens.

donnysoule

most certainly

ItsMeGee3

We really do talk about ANYTHING here, don't we?

Joannah700

Yes.

And I can detect the change in myself and in others. There have been times I've walked into my work bathroom and thought... Asapargus strikes again! Asparagus.

Becka4Real

It's true. Weird, huh?