What makes us fart? All the good stuff.
What makes us fart? Turns out it’s all the good stuff you want to eat. According to LiveScience, the biggest gas-inducing food ingredients are sugars. Too bad sugar is in everything. Is there no escaping the gas? If only the Toot Tone were a real gadget.
“The answer may stink, but eating or drinking anything gives us gas. In fact, it’s normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas, each day.”
15 to 20 toots worth of gas each day? How much gas, exactly, makes up your average “toot”? Are we talking “five-second cushion burner”, “long slow quiet release”, or more along the lines of “short frog croak”? Seems to me, all those toots are comprised of quite different volumes of gas.
If you’re like me, and I sincerely hope you’re not, then you might be the kind of person who squeezes out 15-20 “five-second cushion burners” per day. Which means I need to Febreeze my office seat cushion about once a week.
According to the article, ass gas is produced by intestinal bacteria that do the following:
“In the process of converting our meals into useful nutrients, these food-munching microbes produce a smelly by-product of hydrogen sulfide gas—the same stench that emanates from rotten eggs.”
But that doesn’t explain why my bologna farts actually smell like bologna.
And the only food that doesn’t give you gas: Rice. Which is great for the Asian countries, as long as they’d stop producing children’s jewelry with lead in it and killing our animals with poison pet food.
They don’t always smell like rotten eggs, that’s for sure. It seems to imitate the smell of what you ate most recently. If you had tacos, then that’s what it imitates. It’s like an alien or something..A shape shifter.
Tara: Shape shifting farts… that would explain a lot.
two words….well more like one…hot dogs
sir jorge: The chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water… well, that’s 9 words, so yours is better.
your hot dog farts smell like hot dogs because there is nothing to digest in those fake food products. nasty
Robguy: Good point… I think the smelliest farts come from the most processed foods. That really is telling.
its diet man and like mojotek said its processed food because processed food has a ton of sugars in since sugar molecules are a natural anti bacteria barrier on the molecular level.
eating good foods means less of all bad gas and nasty poops.
mulk: See, I knew somebody would be able to say in more scientifically than me.