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Unsurprisingly, the titan arum’s unsavory cocktail includes many sulfur-containing compounds, that shock-yellow element often found near volcanoes that characterizes everything from rotting eggs to bad breath.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

Understanding how these two bacterial species work together to cause bad breath could be helpful in developing ways to treat or even prevent bad breath.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

This helps explain why, back in Barbie Land, our heroine is experiencing symptoms of imperfection, from flat feet to bad breath.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024

He first tackled the tree's bad breath: It emits a chemical called isoprene that, when mixed with tailpipe pollution, can increase the global warming potential of the already potent methane.

From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2023

But it wasn’t a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for “chronic halitosis”—a then obscure medical term for bad breath.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt



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