Why does beetroot make urine purple but things like watermelon don’t make it red?

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Why does beetroot make urine purple but things like watermelon don’t make it red?

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It has to do with the pigments in the food. For beets, it is betalain, which survives the stomach acid and digestion process in most people where it is finally filtered out by the kidneys.

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