# Besides asparagus, what else makes urine smell funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038 "2004-11-04T20:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/21 "2004-11-05T03:13:14Z")
> [@NattoGuy](#): > > Also I am getting a strange smell with a product from Japan known as natto, which is fermented soybeans. Takuan (bright yellow pickles made from daikon), gives my urine a very distinctive odor. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/22 "2004-11-05T03:17:37Z")
Oh-oh. I had asparagus, Brussels sprouts and fish for supper tonight, plus lots of water – break out the gas masks! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/23 "2004-11-05T03:47:11Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Me too - it smells like a coffee from a railway station. Let’s hope you haven’t hit on their secret there! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/24 "2004-11-05T03:47:40Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Oh-oh. I had asparagus, Brussels sprouts and fish for supper tonight, plus lots of water – break out the gas masks! :eek: Remember what I said. There are people who CAN’T smell this. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/25 "2004-11-05T04:23:36Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Remember what I said. There are people who CAN’T smell this. But I can. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/26 "2004-11-05T06:27:15Z")
Didn’t Benjamin Franklin write that a little camphor makes your pee smell like lilacs? I’d dig up a cite myself, but I’m’a go to bed now. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/27 "2004-11-05T08:11:17Z")
A good oaked Chardonnay makes your pee smell, well, oaky. ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/28 "2004-11-05T11:41:14Z")
I little OT, but while on the subject of foods effecting pee - it may not make it smell funny, but too much beetroot turns it pink… OB ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/29 "2004-11-05T13:05:49Z")
As far as I know, the ‘Sugar Puffs’ odour is a symptom of a high sugar intake, rather than from eating the particular cereal. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/30 "2004-11-05T15:47:43Z")
Yeah, anything sweet makes my pee smell sickeningly sweet. Makes me long for that bitter ammonia smell. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/31 "2004-11-05T16:20:05Z")
Guanafenisen(sp?), a common OTC cough remedy, will make your urine smell really strange. Distinctive enough that I realized that a prescription pill I took had it in it just from going to the restroom. ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-asparagus-what-else-makes-urine-smell-funny/273038/32 "2004-11-05T18:34:04Z")
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