CAUTION: If you drink lots of grape cool-aid your pee turns green.

[Swede]

Just a word of warning.

[davidinalameda]

1. why doesn't it turn purple

:shrug:

[Swede]

2. Damn it dwickham,I'm not a doctor!

It's just one of those mysteries.

[davidinalameda]

10. but do you play one on TV

:shrug:

[Kraklen]

5. Grape Kool-Aid is colored via two artificial colorings.

FD&C Blue 1 and FD&C Red 40, to give it a purple coloring. The FD&C Red 40 is apparently metabolized by the body, while the FD&C blue passes through. Since urine is yellow, the resulting color is green.

[acmavm]

8. It's something to do with the reaction to the purple dye. It turns green

when it goes through the digestive tract.

Give a baby grape Kool Aid. The first time I did (years ago) freaked me out and I called the Doctor. That's the only reason I know that grape Kool Aid turns green.

[hickman1937]

3. Good to know. I'm a little bored with yellow. n/t

[Pirate Smile]

4. You are correct. I only know because I've seen green pee and

poop from grape juice drinking kids.

It is green, not purple.

[notadmblnd]

6. and you should see what happens if you eat a lot of beets

my god, I thought I was bleeding to death one day. then I remembered I had eaten an entire batch of beets I had cooked up.

[Chichiri]

7. What if you drink lots of green apple kool-aid?

[baby_bear]

9. Here's a piece of advice for you.

Drink red wine. It tastes better, it makes you feel good, it's good for your health, and it doesn't turn your damned pee green!

Cheers!

b_b

[progmom]

11. and big-ass vitamin C capsules turn your pee orangey-yellow

so like...don't freak out the way i did, mkay?

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Locking.

Although we appreciate your giving all of us the head's up, bodily function threads are a violation of DU rules.


Thank you.


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