Thursday, January 28, 2010

Random Fact: Boy Choy Makes Your Pee Stink

The phenomenon of smelly pee is well known as relates to the consumption of asparagus. But the other day, I noticed I was producing some strong-smelling stuff and hadn't had any asparagus. The night before, however, I had some delicious stir-fry that heavily featured the chinese cabbage known as bok choy.

As a member of the cruciferous or brassicaceae family of vegetables, it is kin to asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and others that have the ability to by-produce odoriferous urine. It was strong, pungent, and distinctly different than asparagus pee, but bok choy was the culprit. It wore off after about a day.

There's not much authoritative stuff out there on the Interwebs on this topic, so I thought I'd weigh in just in case you haven't eaten asparagus and are producing smelly pee. If you haven't eaten bok choy either, one other culprit is sexually-transmitted disease (STD), in which case you should probably get your junk checked out by someone who went to medical school.

5 comments:

  1. If you think bok choy is bad, you should see what beets do... I almost rushed to the hospital after that one.

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  2. I've had the beet experience too. For a split second I thought I was dying.

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  5. I had the same condition. I had Bok Choy for 2 meals in a row. Was googling to see if anyone else did. Glad to find this.
    I guess its not TMI to say it smelled a bit skunky, very different than asparagus.

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