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Important question about ASPARAGUS!
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Important question about ASPARAGUS!
If it does and you can tell you're SPECIAL!
Asparagus is filled with sulfur-containing amino acids that
break down during digestion into six sulfur-containing compounds.
These can impart a unique smell to urine as they are excreted.
"It's the same sulfur group that makes skunks smell," said Barbara
Hodges, a dietician with Boston University's nutrition clinic,
the Evans Nutrition Group.
Scientists remain divided on why people have different urinary
responses to eating asparagus. One camp thinks only about half
of the population have a gene enabling us to break down the
sulfurous amino acids in asparagus into their smellier components.
Others think that everyone digests asparagus the same way, but
only about half of us have a gene that enables us to smell the
specific compounds formed in the digestion of asparagus.
In other words... if you can smell the funny smell and you make it... your only one in 4... theoretically.
Let's see what the poll says.
(Other people who are "special" like this were/are, Babe Ruth and Bobby Hull)
Asparagus is filled with sulfur-containing amino acids that
break down during digestion into six sulfur-containing compounds.
These can impart a unique smell to urine as they are excreted.
"It's the same sulfur group that makes skunks smell," said Barbara
Hodges, a dietician with Boston University's nutrition clinic,
the Evans Nutrition Group.
Scientists remain divided on why people have different urinary
responses to eating asparagus. One camp thinks only about half
of the population have a gene enabling us to break down the
sulfurous amino acids in asparagus into their smellier components.
Others think that everyone digests asparagus the same way, but
only about half of us have a gene that enables us to smell the
specific compounds formed in the digestion of asparagus.
In other words... if you can smell the funny smell and you make it... your only one in 4... theoretically.
Let's see what the poll says.
(Other people who are "special" like this were/are, Babe Ruth and Bobby Hull)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jedwards
[B]Hey if you think the Gilroy Garlic festival is smelly...
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