hippuric acid

…an amide of glycine called hippuric acid, C₆H₅CONHCH₂COOH. The sodium salt, sodium benzoate, is used as a preservative in many foods.

Hippuric acid, an abundant urinary organic acid of humans, illustrates the complexity and challenge of interpreting metabolic data. Microbes resident in the large intestine of the human body help to break down complex aromatic compounds in dietary plant matter, freeing up benzoic acid, which enters…