I assume you are not a big asparagus eater?
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I eat asparagus rarely but I can always smell it in my urine. I drink black coffee regularly and I've never smelled anything of note in my urine afterwards.
If you have that gene. Not everyone can smell asparapiss
I've compared the two, big black coffee is worse
Live a little.
Eat a meal of asparagus and drink 20+ ounces of black coffee.
Hold your pee as long as possible.
Drink some water bro
No
I see your bet and raise you asparagus
counter point: I like how fruity it smells
which makes me wonder if it's about the quality of the coffee you're drinking (I roast my own green beans and always have really fresh and delicious coffee, I never buy pre-roasted coffee anymore)
maybe I should keep a log of my coffee pee smells and compare different coffees and how they affect the smell
If your urine smells sweet you should get your A1C checked.
around a year ago my A1C was 4.4%, more recently it was 5% - it's been a 5 for many years.
It's not a sweet smell, but a fruity coffee smell that only happens when I pee after I drink coffee.
fun fact: doctors used to diagnose diabetes by tasting the patient's urine for sweetness :-)
fun fact:
Not if you were the doctor.
we don't know what the doctor is into, I don't judge
Someone will find your piss collection - it will be a very awkward encounter.
I would probably just launch into my findings and results and ask them to share their observations about their coffee pee smells
ok fair but I don't care how good of friends we were, I'm not draining those jars after you die. Browser history, fine, pee jars, hard pass FYI.
then how else are my trees going to get fertilized? 🥺 👉 👈 🫙
Somebody was peeing in the shower...
😉
I think thiss effect tells you something about your bodily functions.
I drink about 20 cups of black coffee daily. No smelly urines.
Nah
Try smelling piss after eating asparagus.
Per my other comment, I have, I consider black coffee to produce a worse smell.
I have been drinking black coffee for a decade and have never even noticed a smell. Might be telling on yourself friend
Good
Does it not just smell like delicious coffee? Has nothing to do with black or mixed.
If you drink piss, does it end up smelling like black coffee?