Why is poo always brown ?

[pbrankin]

Why is poo always brown regardless of what you eat ?

[Donkey]

Try drinking 10 pints of Guinness and tell me its brown.... Black as the ace of spades !! not an answer to your question but hope it helps

[j2buttonsw]

Because it contains haem which comes from recycled blood cells.

[Susan123]

It is not always brown - try eating fruit and vegetables only, and no coffee for about 3 days and then see what interesting shade of yellow/green it can be!!

[rinkytink]

Nice......Eating my lunch as I'm reading this !!!

[jills]

and try a course of iron tablets....black as black can be!

[FTVS]

Beetroot gives you a lovely red colour

[pbrankin]

Ok, some good responses, but you are listing the exceptions. You have to accept that it is nearly always brown. If it is due to Haem, is it that the share quantity of blood cells that get recycled will nearly always influence the colour to be brown ?

[funkylad20]

Basically when blood is of no use to the body anymore, it needs to be expelled so it is dead blood cells that make the colour (duller red = brown). You think of allthe blood in the body, and how much is expelled daily. Mixed with food that the body has broken down (again, another grim colour if you think about it, ever make mixed up mud pies when you were a kid?!?!) the "dead" blood basically acts as a strong dye and makes it brown. Answered.

[secretspirit]

I have it on good authority that if you really wanted to change the colour raw cabbage produces a lovelty shade of green.

[iQueen]

Bile also helps to colour waste. Also, try going on a milk diet for 'baby yellow'!

[stevo_steve]

mines kinda green sometimes, more red if i pop a lotta pills

[sylviak]

it can be black yellow and green too. haveyou not experienced those yet.i have one why do some float why do some sink