Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why is my poop brown? – Ethan J., age 9 ...

Three-quarters of your poop consists of water and most of the rest is food your body didn’t digest. Once it exits the digestive system, poop is usually a shade of brown, regardless of the ...

Bile has an important role in giving stool its brown color so when a patient tells Kumar Desai, MD, gastroenterologist, hepatologist, and pancreaticobiliary specialist in Thousand Oaks, California ...

Other colors of poop Poop, of course, isn’t always brown. It can be a different color, depending on what you eat and how fast the stuff moves through your system.

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A Health survey found that one in three adults had abnormal poop in the past month, with millennials and Gen Z reporting it most.Some abnormalities are usually harmless, ...