Why your farts are smelling worse than usual and how to figure out the key culprit in your diet

 

SALAD AT LUNCH

If you favour a salad at lunch, those extra vegetables may make your gut go into overdrive. Raw vegetables and ingredients like beans have high fermentable fibres. Although they’re healthy, as they feed your gut bacteria, in big doses, they can lead to gut-related issues. Millicent Chapman, Nutritionist at Holland & Barrett, says: “Fibre is a nutrient in food that our body cannot fully break down. “When fibre reaches the large bowel, the good bacteria that live there can ferment it.