Is it normal to eat spinach puree and poop green?

Spinach is one of the most common vegetables, rich in plant fiber. When ingesting too much spinach paste, plant fiber may not be fully absorbed in the intestinal tract. These unabsorbed plant fibers may cause green stools to appear after mixing with feces in the intestinal tract. This is a normal physiological reaction and there is no need to worry too much.

If patients are accompanied by abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, it is generally considered abnormal, which may be caused by functional dyspepsia, bacterial dysentery, irritable bowel syndrome and other diseases. When bacteria in the intestinal tract oxidize yellow bilirubin in feces to biliverdin, symptoms of green stools will occur.