Strange side-effect of eating lamb

[Dima]

My urine smells like lamb(!) when I consume 200-300 grams of lamb meat every day. Anybody else notice this? Is this a sign of a problem?

[Iguana]

Could be either that this lamb is not 100% correct or that you eat too much of it, too often. Eating everyday the same meat should be avoided and you'd better expand and vary your choice of food.

[goodsamaritan]

Listen to Iguana.
Don't you get sick of eating the same monotonous thing every day?
I also get into stretches of eating the same thing like beef or horse but after a week or two I don't want it anymore and switch to something else.

[achillezzz]

one dude who drank his urine once reported that it tastes and smells like your last meal.

[Löwenherz]

My urine smells like lamb(!) when I consume 200-300 grams of lamb meat every day. Anybody else notice this? Is this a sign of a problem?

Yes, I noticed this too. Urine smells like concentrated lamb every time after eating lamb.

I don't think that this is necessarily a bad thing. If I eat papaya my urine smells like papaya, always. And many years ago, on a cooked food diet, my urine smelled very special every time after eating asparagus. Durian also causes a special smell if I remember correctly.

So, I guess it's normal. Any other views?

Löwenherz

[sabertooth]

Yeah I think I noticed a lamish sent from the toilet bowl after eating lamb for consecutive days. It has a distinct aroma that is much stronger than the bland smell of beef based urine.

I would usually go through a whole lamb within two weeks and then start eating beef again, so I would never get fully saturated with lamb odor. I do eat a lot of lamb suet, and what I get doesn't have the same smell as lamb meat or organs. Its something in the meat that must be giving it its odor.

[Josh]

When I eat beef my pee smells of biscuits.

[Dima]

Thanks for the encouraging replies. I was a bit concerned since I didn't notice this phenomenon with any other foods. I stick with lamb for the most part because it's the most easily obtainable grass-fed meat for me.

[magnetic]

I have recently been eating lots of beef organs and my feces smell like raw beef.

[Grey-Cup]

Resurrecting an old thread, I have noticed this very phenomenon wrt lamb, and more generally I would add cooked lamb. I don’t notice an odour when eating small meals of raw lamb, but larger cooked lamb meals result in a very distinct sweet lamb odour. This does not happen with beef or any fish/seafood, only lamb! There must be a metabolites present in lamb that carry the scent, I do wonder if it is like asparagus pee in that only certain people can smell it?

[dair]

Before I started eating raw meat, I met a guy who had in his car a couple of kilos of raw lamb in his car (it was on a sort of camping in nature, no electricity). I was a bit shocked, as it was kept unrefrigerated, and thought it might be dangerous for him to eat. And, what I remember is that his body odour smelt very strongly of lamb/sheep. It was not really unpleasant, but very noticeable (for me anyway, as I got a good sense of smell when I went fruitarian). I am wondering now if I do get this body odour when I eat lamb...

[Grey-Cup]

Interesting. To clarify, I was referring to urine odour only, not body odour, thankfully!