Pee tree

There's a couple of things you can pretty much count on when it comes to asparagus:

1) It will supply you with a variety of powerful antioxidants, including a healthy dose of glutathione;

2) It contains a good amount of folate, which has been shown reduce the risk of heart disease and certain types of cancer;

3) It contains certain amino acids that can help reduce water retention, something that can make you look a bit puffy, and;

4) It will make the pee of many people who eat it smell pretty funky.

Since it's the most fun topic out of the four, that's what I'll address. The pee issue.

Strangely, this scent-chaing affect that asparagus has on urine does not occur in all people. Even more strange is the fact that there is also a segment of the population who cannot smell the funky scent given off by asparagus-laced urine. It is believed that only those with a certain gene can cause the break down of chemicals inside the asparagus that causes the scent, and only those with the proper gene can smell the results of that chemical breakdown.