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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If it takes hours and hours for food to digest, how does asparagus stink up my pee so quickly?
gpt
Absorption of chemicals and nutrients begins as soon as food hits your mouth (this is why some medications can be delivered by putting them under your tongue). Most of it occurs in the intestine, of course. So, while it takes hours for asparagus to go end-to-end, processing begins very quickly, and clearly the chemicals in asparagus that stink up your pee are among those absorbed relatively quickly.