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Dietary mouth odor is caused by metabolism changes especially with low-carbohydrate diets. If the body does not receive enough carbohydrates, the lipid metabolism suffers. In order to counteract the lack of carbohydrates, the body produces so-called ketone bodies which are exhaled as foul-smelling acetone.
