Why can I smell coffee in my urine?

Factual Questions
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I drink really strong black coffee, and the aroma goes right through me. So this is a real phenomenon, and you’re not a freak, you’re normal.

I’ll tell you another food aroma that makes for fragrant urine: Basmati rice. I eat basmati rice for lunch and dinner every day, and I can smell its characteristic fragrance the next morning.

In the novel The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd, the Elizabethan alchemist Dr. John Dee urinates the morning after a party when he’d been drinking spiced wine. He smells cinnamon and muses how his urine could be collected and alchemically refined to retrieve the cinnamon.

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Having your urine smell like coffee doesn’t seem like anything you should worry about, but I would start to be concerned if your coffee smells like urine. :smiley:

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Sometimes I swear my urine smells like popcorn, or maybe rice cakes, even though I no longer eat either.

And for the record, I do get very strong asparagus pee, even after eating only 1-2 spears.

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Sugar Puffs (which I assume are of the same ilk as Sugar Smacks, whatever they are…) are the main culprit for scented whiz, for me.

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Yeah, be thankful your coffee does not smell like urine. That is a more serious problem.