Why is pee yellow?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Pee is super cool! It’s 95% water. It’s sterile. And it can be a window into our overall health. But why is it yellow? We asked mechanical engineer Patricia Yang to help us find the answer. Got a Moment of Um question? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help find the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:06.0	Answering those questions that make you go.
0:26.3	Moment of um um comes to you from APM studios. I'm Anna Weggle.
0:27.9	Um.
0:35.2	Quick! I have a challenge for you. As fast as you can, name every yellow thing you can think of.
0:36.6	I'll do it too. Here we go.
0:37.9	Bananas.
0:54.3	Dandelions. Egg yolks. Lemon. Pencils. Corn. Canaries. Butter. Taxis. Daffodils. Squash. School buses. Yellow peppers. Traffic lights. And there's one more thing, but... Okay, it kind of makes me giggle to say it, and I don't know why.
0:55.4	Okay, I'm just going to do it.
0:56.0	I'm just going to do it.
0:56.6	I'm just going to do it.
0:54.3	P. There's one more thing, but... Okay, it kind of makes me giggle to say it, and I don't know why.
0:56.6	Okay, I'm just going to do it. I'm just going to do it.
0:57.7	P.
1:02.4	P.
1:05.1	Hi, my name is A.L.
1:06.8	And I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1:09.2	And my question is, what makes pee yellow?
1:17.6	Pea is yellow because of a chemical compound called Euroviolet.
1:20.6	This compound is yellow.
1:23.0	Hi, I'm Patricia Young.
1:30.3	I study fluid inside animal's body, such as peeing, pulling, and blood. We make pee by our kidney.
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