After my morning constitution I wondered, for the millionith time, why is poop brown? What exactly is my body doing that leaches all the color out of what I eat…except for brown?
I eat a red apple, brown poo. I eat a bright yellow cake…still brown poo. So whats going on in there?
A barium enema (used to provide contrast on an x-ray of the large intestine) will turn any poop that arrives in that area afterwards an odd white color)
My fellow (male friend) campers on a 3rd grade trip though it was rather interesting. I for one was a bit confused untill I figured out why it was so.
Actually, this discussion reminds me of a few years ago, when a good friend of mine decided that there were not enough blue foods in the world.
So, he started dyeing his food with blue food coloring. Blue in the batter yielded blue pancakes. Blue soaked into asparagus very well. Everything he ate had blue in it, and he probably went through a cup of food coloring in the day.
The side-effect was science. He’d heard someone state that the, ahem, “cycle” took about a day, which seemed too long for his experience. Sure enough, eight hours after breakfast… blue. Not mildly, either. It looked like a giant smurf had been there.