A Spare A Gus
Recently, the topic of "asparagus urine" has leaked it's way into almost every circle of friends I have. So, I'd like to include everyone else on it. Well, the gist of it is when I eat asparagus, it makes my urine smell different within 10 minutes. I didn't think I was special, I thought everyone experienced this, especially after a reference was made to it in "Austin Powers - Goldmember". ... ... So funny.
Anyway, apparently I'm in the minority...only 40% of the population have the enzyme that breaks down asparagus to produce this odour. Furthermore, not everyone can detect this odour -- about 10% of the population can not detect the odour.
I bring this up because I think other things I eat are affecting the bouquet of my urine. I find I'm consistently reminded that I've eaten Cheerios earlier in the day when I go to the urinal. There have been accounts of people (my informal poll of my co-workers) experiencing the same thing with Sugar Crisps and coffee. Today, I noticed a hint of cucumber in my urine and sure enough there were a few slices of cucumber in my sandwich.
Is this all in my head? Or is there something wrong with my internals? And am I deteriorating into a human vegetable juicer?
posted by Weichi @ 8:44 PM
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Hey Bro,
Yes, I concur that the asparagus thing is a minority... but I think it's genetic, cuz it affects me the same way. It took many meals of serving up Vietnamese asparagus crabmeat soup to finally realize this, btw. Marque, aka Quoc, also has the enzyme, too... Imagine the chances of that?!! Two people with the somewhat uncommon enzyme meet eachother, get married, and have a child who undoubtedly will have the same genetic attribute (not sure if this is good or bad). Happy cooking and eating!
Good thing I can't smell much of anything at all. That's pretty disgusting. I didn't know asparagus has a smell.. and I love asparagus. Btw, I also went to Victoria Albert (left after grade 2).
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