A disgusting but fascinating thread (TMI, bodily functions.) Hint: It turned "Grass Green".

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I’ve made a fantastic discovery. A wonderful discovery! Full of…um…wonder? And…discovery? You see, friends, I recently visited the restroom. And I was a bit shocked and afraid to see that

That shit is greenI don’t mean like a drab olive greenI mean like a bright grass green

Yep, a certain normal function was now functioning in a completely new optical spectrum! I was worried, at first. I assumed the worst. I must be dying. Liver shutting down, kidneys pulling the escape hatch, gallbladder saying: Hey, fuck you, man. I’m out.

With my mind racing full of worries I did a few google searches. I’ve got to find out what’s wrong with me! Or I’ll die!

I wracked my brain, trying to think of anything bad I’d done recently. Drugs? No, can’t think of any. Parasites? Well, nothing but ear worms. What about my diet? What have I done?

…well, I suppose I have been drinking a lot of Gatorade. That G2 stuff is mighty tasty, and is very low in calories. It also provides essential “Blue 1”. What’s this? Certain food dyes can make certain…things…turn odd colors?

…oh.

Yep, I’ve found something fascinating. And I’ve repeated and verified the experiment several times - for science, of course. Yes, the blue dye in certain flavors of Gatorade (and Kool-Aid, as I’ve Googled) is digested, metabolized and combined with good ol’ bile to turn a bright green. And then…um…excreted.

Do not attempt to verify this experiment! IANAD, and would never suggest such a course of action. I myself drank one liter of Blueberry-Pomegranate G2 over the course of a day. I didn’t chug it or anything, it was just a useful water substitute. Repeat - do not chug or guzzle it. Don’t fucking OD on G2. This ain’t some radio Wii contest where I want you to get all dystonic and die. I don’t think that would happen since it’s full of delicious ions, but IANAD. Repeat: IANAD. Don’t even try to down a mass of this beverage without a proper Doctor’s supervision. And don’t smoke, either. It’s bad for you. (IAAAS(I Am Also A Smoker))

But still - fascinating. Better living through chemistry!

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I had a similar experience, except that the cause of the unusual color was licorice. Specifically, Twizzler’s licorice bits, which apparently contain artificial dyes.

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As did I, and I think it was licorice, though the color in question was more of a blue-green. A really pretty color, if it hadn’t been what it was. Freaked me right out, but it only happened once.

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When I was around 18 my 13 year old brother invited me to see the “weirdest shit ever.”

It was a bright flourecescent green. Like all the bad stuff in any sci fi show. The culpurit was something like 5 extra huge blue Slurpees. A 7-11 had just opened a few blocks from my parents house. I think my brother slowed down on food colouring after that.

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Yeah, Froot Loops cereal now has blue dye. My daughter and I had a little discussion about that recently, to reassure both of us that there was nothing horrible going on!

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Hah! I just had that Gatorade today. :smiley:

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Sheesh, everyone is going green these days… Maybe you had too many soy lattes…

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So what happens when you guys eat Skittles?

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I was going to post the licorice thing. Maybe. Anyway, I had noticed the same effect from Twizzlers.

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When I was incarcerated in a hospital while being treated for a heavy kidney infection they tried me on a series of antibiotics and meds. I never knew what color I was going to piss any given day … it was … disconcerting.

Though I did develop a liking for the feeling of that IVP induced body flush - just like a couple of shots of schnaps on a cold winter night =)

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Within the last few years, I started cooking beets for my husband after I found I missed eating them. Nice roasted fresh beets, mm. He liked them too; he didn’t eat beets as a kid.

So, he didn’t know, and I didn’t think about warning him about, the effect on your urine. Nothing like a guy thinking he’s seeing fresh blood in his urine to wake him up in the morning. :smack: The last time I made them, I teased that I should put a post-it over the toilet reading only, “You ate beets.” He nearly freaked the next morning but then remembered my comment.

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I’ve made several discoveries regarding foods and colors of excrement.

Anything artificially blue will turn my poop Lucky Charms Green.
AZO makes my pee bright red-orange-- it’s disturbing.
Dark chocolate in powder or syrup form makes my poop almost black.
Beets have no effect on me whatsoever, but red velvet cake does (poop only).
Large quantities of fruit/carbohydrates often leads to marbled, multicolor poop that vaguely resembles peanut butter and chocolate taffy.

Why am I sharing this?

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Also beware of tri-color tortilla chips. The purple ones are the culprit.

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Had rather vivid purple shit once, followed shortly after by purple pee. Just before I was ready to call an ambulance I remembered I’d chugged a couple of glasses of pure beetroot juice. The phenomenon even has a name apparently - beeturia. That’s a pretty name, little girl, however did your parents come up with it?

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I peed bright orange and would have been scared but it was from a medication for a bladder infection.

Intersting on the Gatorade, I would think our body would clean the color out? My vitamins make my pee very yellow which is unabsorbed vitamin C being excreted.

I had a client on dialysis that never peed, ever!

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Picture this. You’re a healthy 18 years old. You go to take a monster crap. It’s pretty loose though, almost watery. You finish up and go to flush…and the whole bowl is covered in bright red blood. The water’s murky, there are streaks running down the side of the bowl…

You flush and wash up, and walk out. But then you fall over. I mean, SPLAT!, right there on the living room carpet. Something in your back is stabbing you. You can’t hold your torso upright because the muscles won’t cooperate, so you can’t stand up.

You’re pretty sure you’re going to die right there from some internal hemorrhaging.

Either that or it’s the pack of Twizzlers you just ate and the fact that you were just lifting a bunch of heavy cafeteria tables at work.

Crisis averted.

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Around Valentine’s Day someone brought some store-bought cupcakes to the office. I had one of the ones with bright-red frosting. Yum. Ate it, promptly forgot about it.

…

Nothing like taking a blood-red shit first thing in the morning to chase away that grogginess!

I also ingested a lot of blue food coloring once, and had the subsequent kelly-green poop. As others have mentioned, it’s actually a very pretty color, if taken out of context.

It took every ounce of self-control not to call Mr. Horseshoe into the bathroom to come and see it. (“Honey! Get the camera!”) I’d like to preserve some mystery for the sake of our sex lives … but I couldn’t stop myself from bounding out of the bathroom after I’d safely flushed it away and going “Ohmygod, you’ll never guess what color I just pooped!”

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When he was little - still in diapers - my son enjoyed watching Blue’s Clues. My mom bought him some Blue’s Clues branded dyed to match applesauce once. Once.

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Flamin Hot Cheetos must be made with a crap ton of orange dye because everytime I eat a bag my poop comes out a bright neon orange.

You guys should try it. It’s fun.

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Back when I was single, a housemate had a thing for the Cookie Monster. His girlfriend made a Cookie Monster cake for his birthday, and used most of a bottle of blue food coloring in the frosting to get the right shade of blue for his “fur”. I shat various shades of green for most of a week.

New slogan: “Skittles - piss the rainbow”:smiley: