For several years now, scientists have been saying - if you don't want to stink (sorry for such a rude word) - don't eat "bad" foods. I honestly didn’t really believe in this theory, probably because I didn’t meet very “fragrant” people (provided that they observe elementary hygiene). In our age of antiperspirants and shower gels, so flavored that they kill with their smell on the way, if you take a shower regularly... But, as it turned out, I was wrong.
The perception of odors is different for each of us, but somehow I had a chance to communicate with a person who smelled really harsh... Cabbage and something else (not entirely pleasant). He was not a vegan in the full sense of the word, but a vegetarian, or rather. Followed the principles of Vedic food. That is, I ate a lot of vegetables and dairy products.
But you shouldn't think that vegetables were the culprit for the smell. It turned out - milk! Yes, when I read that there are people in whom milk provokes the appearance of a cabbage smell in sweat, I was very surprised.
Before that, I came across publications only about the dangers of red meat - it is rich in amino acids, so a couple of hours after having eaten it, a person can smell bad.
It would be interesting, of course, to understand the principle - because the skin is very little involved in the elimination of what is called toxins, most of the load falls on the digestive tract, liver and kidneys. But, alas, I am not a doctor, and all the articles that I found turned out to be well written in scientific language, so I will just share a list of products that spoil the smell of sweat.
I want to warn you in advance: this does not mean at all that I urge you to abandon them and, I repeat, I’m not even sure that they affect all people without exception in this way.
But maybe someone will be interested?
So…
Spices
Hooray, not all! Garlic, curry, cumin, cumin, and onions (at least, they are the ones most often written about).
Garlic and onions are always under suspicion - if a person ate garlic or onions, it almost immediately becomes clear by the smell from the mouth.
But there are other nuances as well. It turns out that onion essential oils are secreted through the skin during digestion and give sweat a very specific smell. And garlic, curry, cumin, cumin, when digested, emit sulfur-containing gases. And they, too, break out through the skin. The theory looks fantastic, the process of digestion is in the stomach, but... Maybe it is so?
Vegetables
Cabbage, and also radish and radish
Yes, yes, I know, radishes and radishes are not vegetables, but either root vegetables, or root tubers (sorry, in biology is also not very strong), but they are sold in vegetable departments, so let them go under the codename "vegetables". The very substances that are responsible for the pungency and specific aroma of these products cause people to smell bad sweat.
Almost the same story is with all types of cabbage: they are rich in sulfur, and therefore the eater may begin to smell of something with a hint of hydrogen sulfide.
Cellulose
If you like foods rich in fiber, then you need to drink a lot of water - when digested, they release a mixture of hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane, which leads to an unpleasant odor.
Collided?