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This study aimed to investigate the possible relationships between the salivary and serum metabolomes to gain a comprehensive view of the metabolic phenotype under physiological conditions. Using 1H-NMR spectroscopy, we obtained the serum metabolite profiles of 20 healthy young individuals and compared them with the metabolomes of parotid, submandibular\/sublingual, and whole-saliva samples collected concurrently from the same individuals using multivariate and univariate statistical analysis. Our results show that serum is more concentrated and less variable for most of the shared metabolites than the three saliva types. While we found moderate to strong correlations between serum and saliva concentrations of specific metabolites, saliva is not simply an ultrafiltrate of blood. The intense oral metabolism prevents very strong correlations between serum and salivary concentrations. 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