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Sodium butyrate—more properly sodium butanoate—is a salt of butyric (butanoic) acid. If it comes into contact with even a trace of moisture, it emits a faint odor of its foul-smelling conjugate acid.

Supplementation with oral butyrate may be effective as a treatment for pediatric obesity, data indicate. In a randomized, placebo-controlled Italian study of more than 50 children with obesity, 6 ...