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Bad breath can be real burden but sometimes your ‘friends’ are just too polite to tell you about it. So here are some sure fire ways of telling if you have bad breath.
1.    Get a small cloth (it has to be dry, unscented and preferably clean as you will be putting it on your tongue!). Stick out your tongue, then rub the vey back part of your tongue for a couple of seconds. Wait for a while then smell the cloth. If it smells bad then you probably have bad breath – I would suggest asking your doctor or dentist about treatment for Halitosis.
2.    Using unwaxed, unscented dental floss, floss a couple of your teeth. Again wait a couple of seconds and smell the floss, if it smells bad you probably have bad breath. This also indicates that you need to floss more!
3.    Use your whole tongue and lick the back of your hand (not the palm), again wait a couple of seconds and smell, if it smells bad your breath probably does too!
Remember – breathing into your hand and smelling it is not a reliable way of testing whether your breath smells!
As stated in other blogs there are simple ways of ridding yourself of bad breath – brush well and regularly, floss and make sure you drink enough water and eat properly! If your bad breath persists there are treatments available.

There are many different reasons for having halitosis and many different remedies. Often it can be caused by diet/nutrition and/or medication. Here are a couple of nutrition tips to help you try to deal with it. These are a couple of natural foods that may provide some relief for bad breath.
1.    Plain yogurt helps the levels of hydrogen sulphide in the mouth, lowering the levels
2.    Berries prevent mouth bacteria
3.    Chew on mint (real mint) or Parsley, they release oils to help combat bad breath
4.    Cinnamon
5.    Try nibbling on a mixture of Anise, Cardamom, Coriander and Fennel Seeds.
6.    Try to convert part of your diet into eating raw fruit and veg. Especially things like Apples and Carrots, the high fibre content and the increased level of saliva the mouth produces when eating them is like a home made mouth wash.
7.    Lemon can neutralise the bad smell, try small bites of lemon rind and if you can stand it suck the juice from a lemon slice!
Hope these help some. If you have any tips please feel free to post them.

Bad breath is caused by bacteria (producing bad smelling gas) in the mouth. It is not what you had for your lunch – although garlic doesn’t help! And for some reason having bad breath has some sort of bad taboo and not even your closest friends seem to be able to tell you that you have a case of halitosis. And unfortunately, even if you breathe into your hand and sniff it you can’t smell your own breath so you’re stuck really. There are a couple of tips to help you keep your breath fresh.
Although mints and breath fresher will mask smelly breath (and they taste nice) it won’t get rid of the problem.
You need to use a mouth wash instead. These will help to kill the bad smelling germs. There are three different kinds of theories to trying to combat bad breath.
1.    Most generic mouthwashes will kill the germs but not all of them and grow back very quickly, so you are essentially again just making your breath smell nice like eating a mint. Product examples are Listerine
2.    Products such as TheraBreath which is an oxidizer will get rid of bad breath but again cannot stop germs from producing.
3.    Products that use Zinc ion systems can prevent bad breath from coming back. Try SmartMouth.