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Can eating seaweed make human farts smell less offensive?
by dajohnson89 10y ago
Can eating seaweed make human farts smell less offensive?
- gotofritz 10y agoThey'll smell of the sea. Which to the people around could suggest, subliminally, it's time for a beach holiday. A chance for some guerrilla marketing right there...!
- gotofritz 10y agoJesus what a humourless bunch
- patall 10y agoMethane does not smell. To quote wikipedia: "At room temperature and standard pressure, methane is a colorless, odorless gas. The familiar smell of natural gas as used in homes is achieved by the addition of an odorant, usually blends containing tert-butylthiol, as a safety measure."
- ars 10y agoThe methane itself doesn't smell, but the gas carries along other compounds that would otherwise stay put. So reducing the gas can reduce smell.
- mrob 10y agoIt's not impossible. Seaweeds are rich in prebiotic polysaccharides that could theoretically alter your gut microbiome to something less odoriferous. But it could also have the opposite effect. Understanding of the human microbiome is still primitive, and most attempts to manipulate it aren't much different from hitting electronics when it's not working.