Stool color chart

To find out whether your diet is behind your verdant poop, try avoiding your usual green (or blue/purple) foods for several days, Dr. Shen says. If your poop goes back to brown, it’s likely that your food choices are causing your green stool, meaning it’s really nothing to worry about.

During the digestive process, enzymes chemically change your bile from its usual yellow-green to brown, according to the Mayo Clinic. If your bile can’t break down properly (for reasons we’ll get to in a sec), it will often maintain some of its original yellow-green color when it leaves your body via your stool.

This can happen if you have an infection from bacteria like salmonella and E.

coli, which can cause diarrhea by forcing your poop to move through your system too quickly. In that case, your bile doesn’t have a chance to become brown, Dr. Shen says. Voilà, now you have green diarrhea.

Just like a bacterial infection, a viral stomach infection—like norovirus, which is often contracted through conta

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