Baker Makes Hot-Selling 'Goldilocks Bread' Using Urine From Public Toilets

An innovative baker in France lists urine taken from public restrooms as one of the ingredients in her top-selling pastry delight.

Louise Raguet, an engineer and "ecofeminist," says she regularly collects urine from public urinals for women in 14th Arrondissement of Paris and uses it in the popular "Boucle d'Or" or Goldilocks bread. She says urine is a wonderful "fertilizer".

Speaking to Russia's TV network RT, Raguet says it is her goal to break the taboos over human waste and promote a sustainable food cycle.

"The challenge for our society is to collect urine as soon as it leaves our body," she says.

According to a recent French Urban Planning Agency study, it is possible to create daily around 29 million loaves of urine-utilizing pastries. It could save farmers around 703 tons of nitrogen used in artificial fertilizers each day.

The self-proclaimed "ecofeminist" says urine is a highly neglected liquid and oftentimes dismissed as waste. Urine contains potassium, nitrogen, and many other nutrients that plants usually get from the soil. "As such, it should be treated as a gold mine," Raguet adds.

According to her, going to the toilet is like flushing food potential down the drain. “When you pee in water, treatment plants remove the nutrients. They do not return to the earth. The system is not circular,” she says.

At present, there is no scientific evidence about whether urine affects the taste of the bread or pastry. The sterility of urine has been widely speculated for a long time, although it is also the subject of scientific debates. To ensure it is clean, Raguet adulterates the strange ingredient at least 20 times before adding it to the wheat she uses in making bread.

Her decision to use female pee is part of what she calls "ecofeminism," which advocates the use of eco-friendly materials to empower women.

This is not her only ecofeminist initiative. She also designed a female urinal prototype, which she claims cuts down the wait time at female bathrooms.