The average person poops out approximately 11,030 kilograms of cumulative waste.
That's the equivalent of more than six SUVs.
Now, oftentimes, that poop is brown, but why is that considering all the colorful comestibles one consumes, and what's going on when poop appears in different colors and textures?
Say you're eating a beautiful rainbowy salad.
Your teeth and saliva first help break down the food and add lubrication.
Each bite enters your esophagus, and sequential muscle contractions push it towards your stomach.
There, the mixture combines with the clear hydrochloric acid and enzyme-packed digestive juices your stomach started secreting as you prepared to eat.
These juices further degrade your food, and once your stomach stops churning, its partially digested contents, called chyme, slowly empty into your small intestine.
Your pancreas releases another clear fluid loaded with even more enzymes, which get to work breaking carbohydrates down into monosaccharides and proteins into amino acids and peptides.
At this point, your liver also sends in bile, which is tinted yellow.
