5 foods that make you smell embarrassingly bad

Consuming extremely hot foods leads to two negative effects on body odor: it causes excessive sweating and it deposits strong-smelling substances which stay on human skin, hair and clothing. The volatile compounds in curry, cumin and fenugreek spices enter the bloodstream after absorption, and then exit through sweat glands to produce their characteristic long-lasting odor. When you consume these foods in huge quantities, your body produces more sweat, creating an environment where skin bacteria obtain additional moisture and nutrients to perform their breakdown process, resulting in the production of strong-smelling acids and sulfur compounds. Reviews in dermatology and microbiology show that strong sweat odour from eccrine bromhidrosis, becomes more severe when people consume spicy and aromatic foods, including garlic, onion, curry and alcohol. The condition becomes more manageable when patients decrease their consumption of these specific foods.

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