Foods, Drinks and Spices that Cause Smelly Urine
Spices Such as Cumin, Coriander & Saffron
Heavily spiced foods in general can cause stinky urine. Cumin, coriander and saffron in particular can give your urine a foul odor.
Fortunately, the bad smell will go away on its own in about a day.
Certain foods and drinks can cause your urine to smell bad. Fortunately, in most cases the smell is harmless and goes away within a day or two.
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Read on to learn more about the common foods, drinks and spices that can cause smelly pee.
Asparagus
The most notorious food that causes foul smelling urine is asparagus. While it is great for your health, it can leave you with an unusual odor in your urine for a day or two. The odor is often described as being like sulfur or rotten cabbage.

The odor in urine caused by eating asparagus is completely normal and will go away naturally in about one day.

Next time you get an asparagus craving, try these tricks to lessen the strong smell in your urine:

Select large stalks of asparagus. They contain less of the sulfuric compounds that make your pee stink than the thinner stalks do.

Add fresh lemon juice to your asparagus right before eating it. Some say the acidity of the lemon juice balances out the substances in asparagus that cause foul-smelling urine.
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