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AP EAMCET · Chemistry · Chemistry in Everyday Life

Food preservative sodium benzoate is eliminated from the body as which of the following metabolite?

  1. A benzamide
  2. B phenyl acetic acid
  3. C benzoic acid
  4. D Hippuric acid
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(D) Hippuric acid

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Sodium benzoate is metabolized as hipporic acid.