Why is poo always brown?

Question

I know it's a little disgusting.. but i've always wanted to know!!

Answer 1

It's not always brown.

Answer 2

because its jus wat itz ya dig? but yo good answer..ha

Answer 3

when you combine all of the colors of paint it becomes brown....same deal

Answer 4

It is not always brown. Eat alot of GREEN food and your poo will be Green. It is what you eat that makes it brown. But sometimes it can be BLACK.

Answer 5

the scoop, on p**p...

hth!

(eta, amazing what you find when you google!)

Answer 6

It aint always brown. If your dying it turns other colours :P

I've had green poo before haha.

Answer 7

Human fecal matter varies significantly in appearance, depending on diet and health. Normally it is semisolid, with a mucus coating. Its brown coloration comes from a combination of bile and bilirubin, which comes from dead red blood cells.

In newborn babies, fecal matter is initially yellow/green after the meconium. This coloration comes from the presence of bile alone. In time, as the body starts expelling bilirubin from dead red blood cells, it acquires its familiar brown appearance, unless the baby is breast feeding, in which case it remains soft, pale yellowish, and not-unpleasantly scented until the baby begins to eat significant amounts of other food.

Throughout the life of an ordinary human, one may experience many types of f***s. A "green" stool is from rapid transit of f***s through the intestines (or the consumption of certain blue or green food dyes in quantity), and "clay-like" appearance to the f***s is the result of a lack of bilirubin.

Bile overload is very rare, and not a health threat. Problems as simple as serious diarrhea can cause blood in one's stool. Black stools caused by blood usually indicate a problem in the intestines (the black is digested blood), whereas red streaks of blood in stool are usually caused by bleeding in the r****m or a**s.

Answer 8

Holy h**l....me too! sorry I dont got an answer to that

Answer 9

try mixing lots of different coloured clay together it always turns out brown.....

Answer 10

... hmm... good question

Answer 11

It's the predominant color because of the bilirubin in dead blood cells.

Grandpa  

Answer 12

Its not always brown. Sometimes it's green, yellowish, or even white. It depends on what you eat, how much you eat, and your health. Bile is what gives it it's color.

Answer 13

It isn't, hence the "Why is my poo green" questions.

Answer 14

because if you take random colors (such as food colors) and mix them up, you get brown.

its like fingerpaint

Answer 15

I think it's because everything you ate has already decomposed in your body or something,so when it comes out...it's not the original color?

Then again,a few years ago I drank a bottle of Pepsi Blue and it was blue :D

Answer 16

It isn't always brown.  Havn't you ever seen baby poo?  Or if you eat a ton of blueberries, it can be purpleish.  It is all of the foods and leftovers that your  body doesn't use, and generally unless you eat a lot of a certain color food, and I mean a lot,  it goes to brown.  Try mixing fingerpaints.  you'll get a shade of yucky brown almost every time when you mix enough colors.  

Answer 17

I love you man

Answer 18

It isn't, first of all. If you ate a lot of green foods, or a lot of food coloring it would turn that color. I once made a blue cake with blue icing for a friend, her daughter stole it and ate the whole thing. The kids pooped blue and thought it was punishment. Apparently it was bright blue, too. LOL.

Otherwise I think it is because it is the combination of the remnants of food and body waste that we don't need. So you are mixing together colors -although most colors naturally in food are absorbed by the body - and the result is brown. I know there is a chemical our body procuces that creates the color specifically.. I think it is CH - something. Sorry I can't be more exact. But visualize mixing the colors of all the foods you eat together. What color do you think it would be? LOL. I am guessing brown?

Answer 19

my friends dog p**p  is yellowish and greenish with like nuts in it cas its bumpy

Answer 20

Well I don't know. But it's not always brown. In all honesty and seriousness sometimes it's a little green.

And sometimes it's red from blood.

Isn't it great?

Answer 21

Its not just brown feed a baby different colors of crayolas it is amazing what you can get, I used to mix different colors to see what I could get.

Answer 22

From the iron in your blood.

Answer 23

Mine is red