Does Beetroot Give You A Fright?

[theothermarg]

Just read that 10% to14% of us pee red after eating beetroot :o I,v always done this, and if you,v forgotten that you have eaten any you do feel somewhat alarmed
I understood that not everybody does this but didn,t realize it was so few
anybody know why? I can,t be the only one here, can I?
marg

[theothermarg]

[Eristic]

I think that just goes to prove that 9 out of 10 people don't eat beetroot. ;D

[asbean]

It gave me a heck of a shock the first time it happened!!!!  I'm used to it now.

[star]

A good sized punnet of raspberries does the same, if eaten at one sitting. Well I love them and couldn't put them down ;)

Yep I got a shock.........knew about beetroot but not the rasps!

[asbean]

And of course - there's the asparagus - but don't let's go there ...  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

[ACE]

We have got red rugs in the bathroom so I would not know.

[Hyacinth]

You moved one of your chandeliers in there to match, ACE?

8)

[manicscousers]

terrrified my mum when I was 3..pinched a jar of beetroot and sat under the table and ate the lot..next day, when I used the pot, she nearly had a heart attack..no, Marge, you're not on your own  ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

there was a bit on The Food Programme about getting children to eat fresh veg where they talked to a family

Dad- what's your favourite food?
BEETROOT!!
why do you like it?
PURPLE POO!!

[theothermarg]

there was a bit on The Food Programme about getting children to eat fresh veg where they talked to a family

Dad- what's your favourite food?
BEETROOT!!
why do you like it?
PURPLE POO!!
I must say I havn,t done any research on this observation ;D ;D :-[
marg

[star]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D Neither have I. But I bet there'll be a lot who have a good luck now ;D ;D ;D

[robkb]

there was a bit on The Food Programme about getting children to eat fresh veg where they talked to a family

Dad- what's your favourite food?
BEETROOT!!
why do you like it?
PURPLE POO!!

Hugh Fearlessley-Eatsitall reckons this is the best way of getting young kids to eat beetroot! Even as a middle-aged old f*art, pink pee still makes me laugh!

Cheers,
Rob ;)

[froglets]

I fed OH our first Wodan beetroot from the lottie earlier this year & got a worried phone call from him at work the next day.....

Yes dear, it does make your poo reddish purple, you're not going to die - Never thought to warn him!  Didn't notice pink wee tho. Hmmm.  And if like me you are on iron tablets - even stronger colour!!!

Re Asparagus, I read an article in New Scientist that it's not that it makes some people's wee smell funny, it's that only some people have the gene that means you can smell it.

[asbean]

Now that's an interesting angle ...

[debster]

red cabbage is regularly on the diet pureed for my mousse diet patients usually these are our most dependent patients so i always warn staff to watch out for the next day it doesnt mean the patient is bleeding they had red cabbage!!  lol

[nippie]

My son hasn't eaten beetroot since he was about 8 cos of this!
Now 38, he admits he loves it but doesn't want red wee! ::)