• Question: why do we fart

    Asked by anon-186548 to Verity, Raquel on 13 Nov 2018.
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      Verity Hill answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      It smells because of the bacteria that live in your gut! They help you to digest food, and they produce gases as byproducts of this digestion.
      Farts can smell because sometimes the bacteria produce things like sulphur dioxide that smells like rotten eggs

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