It's Friday, last day of work, you're done with work at the office so you set up a late lunch with the girls later on in the day. You take an early exit from the office and head for the restaurant. You get to the table and sit down. The smell of egg and onions wafts by you. You look around, no one is having eggs. Where is that stench coming from? You look down and it hits you; it's you. But you haven't even had lunch yet. What could have caused the smell? Sit back. These three foods you ate probably caused the smell:
1. Red meat
Red meat actually causes your body odor to stink stronger and worse; bad news for all the meat lovers out there.
In 2006, researchers in the Czech Republic gathered samples of perspiration from meat eaters and non meat eaters/vegetarians (ok, Eeew). They then collected a group of women and asked them to identify the foulest odors from the lot of samples. Surprisingly the women were in agreement, the meat eating samples smelled much worse! Like it's the first time women have ganged up on men.
2. Garlic
Garlic's stink oozes from your skin because of allicin, a sulphur compound, that is released when garlic is cut down or crushed. The compound breaks down very easily during digestion. It then turns into other substances which then cause bacteria to mix with human sweat, causing the terrible stench.
3. Cruciferous vegetables
These include cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts. Ever wondered what that rotten-egg smell your kids left behind when they leave was from? It's in the cabbage.
Cruciferous vegetables are packed with antioxidants and also sulphur compounds. These sulphur compounds are responsible for the crippling form of flatulence. To make matters worse, these compounds can rent your skin pores for days, leaving you a social outcast.
That's right kids, there's your reason to skip those loathsome vegetables served at dinner.
