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http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...ee?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr
Are you able to detect the smell? I can.
Are you able to detect the smell? I can.
This is not a pee joke (asparagus causing urine odor)
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Interesting, and yes. I am glad we are discovering the cause. Next step: genetically modified non-stink-pee asparagus.
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I can. I learned I wasn't weird for it earlier this year thanks to MinuteEarth.
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Asparagus always reminded me of beta mercaptoethanol.
After I first smelled it (beta mercaptoethanol) in a molecular biology lab.
After I first smelled it (beta mercaptoethanol) in a molecular biology lab.
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jim mcnamara said:
Interesting article, but the BMJ article seems to emphasize anosmia, not metabolism- that is to say, the ability to smell the compounds, not the ability to create the compounds.
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@Andy Resnick - yup - thought I said smell.
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I surprised about all the hate it gets in the article, I think it smells good. Like rainbows.jim mcnamara said:
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I'm not sure if I can or not, I don't cook it very often and haven't paid any attention to it. There doesn't have to be a genetic basis to the phenomenon, like the article noted. It really doesn't surprise me, the scent of other bodily fluids can be altered by food as well... The foods we consume are digested by the body and carried through the bloodstream to various glands and tissues, including sweat glands, the prostate and seminal vesicle (where seminal fluid is created) and the Skene's glands and vaginal wall (where vaginal lubrication is created.) The smell and taste of food molecules we ingest can be released through the secretions produced by these glands and tissues, resulting in a noticeable difference in our body fragrance and flavor.
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jim mcnamara said:
I wonder if the test subjects had to smell someone else's pee...
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Student100 said:I surprised about all the hate it gets in the article, I think it smells good. Like rainbows.
