Effects of beetroot on urine


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purple wee

hi guy's my daughter has just arrived back from uni for one of her many home visits and announced that her wee turns purple when she eats beetroot

purely in the interests of science i recreated the experiment - but to no avail

i then researched it on the internet and found your intensly scientific findings made in 2007 - i will forward it to her

however there is one error in your findings - eating beetroot all day can be fun - especially if you are my daughter - it is her staple uni food and yes she is wierd!

bit worried about the maths question to test if i am human - not sure about that as i am actually a maths teacher - more scientific research needed - are they human

Glad to see you're enjoying

Glad to see you're enjoying the cutting-edge science available onsite. I hope your daughter is equally as happy to know her experience is something many of us can recreate, although perhaps not all it sounds like!

I do enjoy beetroot, don't get me wrong, but all day - and in bizaare variants such as orange soup, salad, pie etc. - it just gets too much by half. Ugh. Still, it is some time since I myself was a student, and back then cheap cold baked beans and 5p noodles were more than enough for me. I guess beetroot - an actual VEGETABLE of sorts - would have seemed like intense luxury!

So far, you've convinced me that yourself, and hence many, maths teachers might be human. I can't imagine robots, or aliens, taking an interest in strangely-coloured bodily fluids. Only our species has the intellectual capacity to conceive of such wonders, I'm sure you'll agree.

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