The Mystery Of Asparagus Pee
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Asparagus is a green, white, or purple spike of a vegetable that heralds spring, goes well with eggs...and makes your pee smell really weird. Or, maybe it doesn't. About 4 out of 10 of people don’t seem to experience stinky asparagus pee, either because they don’t make it, or they can't smell it—or both. Great minds have pondered this smelly mystery since at least 1731, when a Scottish physician noticed that eating asparagus gave urine a definite funk. But, nearly 300 years later, we still don’t totally understand this stink partly because it isn't a particularly high-priority research area, and partly because despite centuries of scientific and technological progress, the gold standard for this research field still seems to involve sniffing pe...
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Asparagus is a green, white, or purple spike of a vegetable that heralds spring, goes well with eggs...and makes your pee smell really weird. Or, maybe it doesn't. About 4 out of 10 of people don’t seem to experience stinky asparagus pee, either because they don’t make it, or they can't smell it—or both. Great minds have pondered this smelly mystery since at least 1731, when a Scottish physician noticed that eating asparagus gave urine a definite funk. But, nearly 300 years later, we still don’t totally understand this stink partly because it isn't a particularly high-priority research area, and partly because despite centuries of scientific and technological progress, the gold standard for this research field still seems to involve sniffing pe...
