Current Events > Why does all food become brown when pooped?

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Or another color if that's actually what happens. Question being, why doesn't a red apple produce red poop?

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just add some coloring to your poop and voil!

problem fixed.

Eat 6 or 7 cactus pears and get back to us tomorrow.

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Spinach doesn't

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mobilebloechel posted...

Corn.

That's only if you didn't chew it though

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oreos make your poop black

different cereals make your poop green

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I poop red all the time.

...it's not fun.

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Apple poop would look like an apple puree with a dash of red or green not just red poop.

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Bile + blood = brown

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Froot loops turn my poop a nice shade of blueish green.

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Why isn't apple sauce red? Huh, scientists? Science gets it wrong so much.
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Notti posted...

Why isn't apple sauce red? Huh, scientists? Science gets it wrong so much.

Apple sauce is made from yellow apples, you silly.

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ShineboxPhil posted...

Bile + blood = brown

This, basically.

https://www.livescience.com/32498-why-is-fecal-matter-brown.html

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You poo more then just food.

ShineboxPhil posted...

Bile + blood = brown

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A little anatomy and physiology will help you understand.

"Bilirubin, the main bile pigment, is a waste product produced when the spleen removes old or damaged red blood cells from the circulation. These breakdown products, including proteins, iron, and toxic bilirubin, are transported to the liver via the splenic vein of the hepatic portal system. In the liver, proteins and iron are recycled, whereas bilirubin is excreted in the bile. It accounts for the green color of bile. Bilirubin is eventually transformed by intestinal bacteria into stercobilin, a brown pigment that gives your stool its characteristic color! In some disease states, bile does not enter the intestine, resulting in white (acholic) stool with a high fat content, since virtually no fats are broken down or absorbed."
https://openstax.org/books/anatomy-and-physiology/pages/23-6-accessory-organs-in-digestion-the-liver-pancreas-and-gallbladder
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/5HOieOK.png">

But yes bile + blood = brown is essentially the tldr summary.

Bile + blood = yellow in yo pee is also simplified too.

Your body breaks down a lot of blood constantly and recycles it too is the essential part of it as to why you're stool comes out brown always or nearly always.

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I remember freaking out because mine was jet black once.

Then i remembered i drank pepto bismol the day before lol

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gafemaqs posted...

That's only if you didn't chew it though

Sometimes they seem to put themselves back together in my stomach. Act of god.

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Also red wine will turn it nigh jet black

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Liquid chlorophyll will give you green poop

badjay posted...

Bilirubin

Huhu, I knew this cuz of Hannibal Lecter. Thanks, doc.

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It seems like a banana should look the exact same coming out as it does going in.

Ryven posted...

i drank pepto bismol the day before lol

when my dog had worms. had to give kaopectate to allow the worm medicine to work. it was all pink/black.
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The human body is fascinating

coh posted...

The human body is fascinating

And terrifying to occupy tbh

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ShineboxPhil posted...

Bile + blood = brown

But there is no blood in my poop?

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eating beets will make you wonder if you were internally bleeding when you poop

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Shablagoo posted...

This, basically.

https://www.livescience.com/32498-why-is-fecal-matter-brown.html

Site tried to make me whitelist it in my adblocker, but repeatedly pressing back enabled me to read the short article without doing so. Take that, livescience.com!

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