What You Eat May Trigger You Bad Breath

February 11th, 2008

Halitosis, commonly known as bad breath is an epidemic among people of different age. Dental experts surveyed that one-third of the population suffers from bad breath and some don’t even know it. Since the brain gets used to your own odor (a process called acclimation) you can’t smell your own breath. Moreover, they certainly added up that the foods you consume play a direct role in odors you emit from your mouth. Mouth odors will continue until the body eliminates the food. This is according to the American Dental Association who mentioned that, from the time you take a bite of that garlic bagel, it becomes absorbed in the bloodstream, gets transferred to the lungs and is then expelled you give off a scent. Obvious foods such as garlic, onions and curry are direct causes of bad breath because they contain sulfur compounds, which is what people smell in bad breath. But there are less obvious foods that can make your breath clear a room.