Contents:
- Why do you eat petai make you smell?
- Why do you eat jengkol make you smell?
- How to get rid of odor after eating petai and jengkol
- 1. Drink and rinse with coffee
- 2. Drink milk
Regarding eating petai and jengkol make the breath smell, it has become a risk for the grain-based food lovers. However, the delicious and tasty taste of Jengkol and Petai, still has its own portion for the lovers. Then, what causes jengkol and petai to make breath and urine smell?
Why do you eat petai make you smell?
Petai has Latin parkia speciosa, found in many Southeast Asian countries, not least in Indonesia. One type of grain with a shape like this candy, has not produced a pungent odor when it is still raw. But, after you eat it, get ready for the smell will come out often with your breath and urine.
Then, what causes eating petai to make the smell of breath and urine become unpleasant? In petai seeds, there are several types of substances that cause unpleasant odors such as hexathionine, tetrathiane, trithiolane, pentathiopane, pentathiocane, and tetrathiepane. In addition, in petai there is a high concentration of amino acids and produces methane gas (producing fart) in the body.
Luckily, substances that contain sulfur compounds are harmless if ingested. But if the effect enters the body, it will cause gas odor (usually the smell on mouth breath), and urine smells.
Why do you eat jengkol make you smell?
Jengkol, or its Latin namearchidendron pauciflorum this, almost similar to some cases with petai. It is found in Southeast Asia, and is famous for its delicious taste but makes the smell of breath and human urine smell.
In jengkol fruit there is a sulfur-containing compound named, djengkolic acid or jengkolat acid. This compound is composed of two amino acids cysteine which are bound by a methyl group on the atom of the screw. Well, it is this acid that plays a role in the smell of urine that comes out so it smells pungent and tends to be unpleasant.
Unfortunately, eating too much jengkol can result jealousy (the term disease, because you eat too much jengkol), which is a condition in which your urine will form crystals and get sick when released.
How to get rid of odor after eating petai and jengkol
1. Drink and rinse with coffee
After eating petai and jengkol, the smell usually does not immediately catch the scent of breath. About 10 to 15 minutes later, a bad aroma will come out. You can remove the aroma by drinking coffee afterwards.
The coffee used is black coffee with half a cup of water. Brew, drink a few sips, and finally you can rinse with coffee water to get rid of the smell of jengkol.
2. Drink milk
Milk is neutralizing food in the aroma in the mouth. Basically, smelling food is still stored in the intestine, even though you have brushed your teeth thousands of times. Well, in milk, there are compounds that fight bacteria in removing bad breath after eating, that is methyl sulfide allyl or AMS. By drinking milk after eating petai and jengkol, surely the smell in your mouth will subside and disappear.
