Blue Food Coloring And Poop, Why The Black Whopper Turns Your Poop Green

Green blue and yellow food coloring can also turn your poop green in this case the green poop is a sign you might be overdoing it on the processed stuff.

Math coloring pages 2nd grade. However foods that contain green or blue food coloring can also turn your poop green. A combination of blue red yellow and caramel colored food dyes turned the burger bun black but resulted in green colored stool because of how the dyes were digested and mixed with other fluids in the body. Blue dye is used in medicine for this reason.

Diet based reasons for green poop are by far the most common but there are others. Infant formula some mothers have reported that their babies have bluishgrey stools for a while when they change milk formulas. Most of the time blue stool is due to blue pigments or dyes that come out when your food is digested.

Every day teenagers give me a new reason to be grateful that social media was in its infancy when i was their age. This cracked me up. Its the same reason that burger kings black halloween burger turned consumers stools green back in 2015.

I made homo cake by dyeing the cake batter different colors and the last three colors have blue food coloring in them green blue purple i started eating the cake at the purple end. Blue is not a pigment typically prod. Always looking out for number two.

People who do not eat a lot of greens or food coloring should be wary as green poop can have a more serious cause. Back in my day if kids wanted to rub soy sauce on their balls and eat all the detergent theyd do it to amuse each other in private not in front of an audience of millions. I noticed my green poop and didnt know what it was from.

Any product containing blue food coloring like kool aid for example can give you blue poop and is nothing to worry about. Nothing in the body causes blue colors. Blue food coloring is a popular food additive and when ingested in large quantities can make stools appear blue.

A common stool color change green poop can mean that youve been eating green vegetables which are rich in chlorophyll or green blue or purple food coloring or it can be caused by any condition that leads to diarrhea or loose stoolsalthough stool is normally brown the occasional green stool can fall within the normal range of stool colors. But now kids who spend a week and a half drinking nothing but blue food coloring to get their pee to. Blue is far from the usual stool color but it isnt usually a cause for concern.

The blue dye can mix with the yellowish green bile pigments in stool and thus make it look green.