Many Nutritious Foods Cause Stinky Gas

Walking into a bathroom after someone has stunk it up is an "eye opener." The nose is likely to spin you around and lead you back out in a rush.

Did last nights meal take a toxic fume dive? Was it this mornings "Big Breakfast?" or could it have been the "All You Can Eat" noontime buffet? Which meal, you might wonder, did this person eat to cause such a stinker?

What you eat makes your poop stink can be overlooked when there are scrumptious favorite foods at stake. Not every food will cause a bowel movement to unload bathrooms and keep prospective users away.

Foods that create the most ghastly smells are the ones that take longer to decompose in the gut where they have a chance to build up noxious gases. Foods that work up a smell tend to sit and rot in the gut. Meat takes longer to decompose in the gut. Rotting meat "stinks awful" and the longer the meat sits in the gut the more rotten it gets and the worse it will smell on the way out.

One of the reasons why meat takes longer to decompose is that it is harder to digest and when it's passed "Watch Out!" Foods that might be thought to cause a smelly bowel movement are largely eaten in things such as the addition of onions and garlic to bring in flavor. But the smell might actually pass another way. The garlic odor is typically sweated out, which is why eating a lot of garlic may keep mosquitoes away. Onion's odor is likely a product of sweating as well since garlic and onions are in the same family.

Nutritious foods can produce unruly fumes in bowel movements. To find out which nutritious foods will be more prone to make your poop stink and in the process recycle nature by putting nutrients back into the soil, do compost. Compost can show you, which foods take longer to decompose. Foods that take longer to decompose will do so in the gut. Compost will help you determine the nutritious stinkers. Not so healthy foods and substances should not be thrown on the compost such as oil, potato chips, cheese and candy.

Not only will compost be able to help you determine which nutritious foods cause stinky bowel movements, but it will help you to determine which salad foods may bring on gas. Any foods that take longer to decompose may cause gas well after they've been eaten and have settled or during the immediate meal.