Sweetcorn
Right...
K2k6 - You're right.
'Red - You're half right.

Humans can digest sweetcorn (although it's disgusting, and I don't know why you'd want to).

Humans can't digest the outer part of the sweetcorn "skin".
This skin is high in coloured compounds, yellow pigments that give it the classic "Horrible Yellow".

You eat the corn, chew it, pass it through your body, digesting the inside of it, the skin will stay mostly intact.

You shit out the normal brown log, and those yellow skins have to go somewhere...
They're studded through the turd like mixed peel in a Christmas pudding *shudders*

So down it all goes to the sewage plant and the fun begins...
( Cawl, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:59, Reply)