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Langywench shoved a box of Earl Grey under my nose last week stating I should drink some as it is supposed to be good for cholesterol levels (mine is borderline but I still vainly think that I can eat what I like as I exercise a lot).
Quite enjoying the tea but my wee is a bit on the limoncello side. Is it the tea or am I dehydrated?
Dehydrated is dark coloured so no.
Beetroot makes it pink!
I think yellow is a normal colour for urine.
And I wouldn't expect Earl Grey tea to affect your cholesterol levels significantly more than any other black/fermented tea.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/04April/Pages/Earl-Grey-unproven-as-replacement-for-statins.aspx
Green tea might possibly though - it has more difference in properties with black tea than Earl Grey has.
Ready brek makes mine green!
It probably adds blue to it then.
Sunflower seeds to lower cholesterol, so I've read.
Yellow = excessive Vit C / dehydrated.
Pale staw colour = normal.
Luminous = lay off the Berocca.
Any chance you are pissing pure margarine? If so your cholesterol was higher than you thought, and the Earl Grey is working!
I am not a nutritionist or doctor by the way...
Earl Grey is just regular tea with freeze-dried granules of bergamot oil in a maltodextrin base, same as your coffee granules.
Fact: the Earl Grey flavour becamse popular when Chinese tea merchants adulterated a shipment of tea with dried bergamot orange rind, rather than the usual sand or iron flings, to increase the weight. The smart tea-drinkers of London liked the flavour so much that they asked for more. The tea bags use the granules but the bulk tea has to have a less stable liquid flavour because the granules would fall to the bottom of the tin.
Fact: Earl Grey's family has several houses and masses of land just down the road from me.
Drab, you could knock on the door (actually buzz entryphone on gate 2 miles from actual house more likely) and ask them and ask what colour their wee is.
He says of course not and yellow urine does not mean dehydration it's fairly normal.