🧠 Why do farts smell?

Most farts don’t smell at all - and we don’t even realise we’re doing them.

When you eat, your gut naturally produces gas as it digests your food, like methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen.

There’s one gas though, that makes up just 1% of the gases you produce, that is the real stink bomb.

Hydrogen sulfide is the gas that clears the room with its smelly rotten egg stink.

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If you eat plenty of foods containing sulfur, then your body can make more stinky hydr...