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Most of the time, what we call taste is intrinsicially tied to smell. Traditionally taste has only 4 measurable concepts: salty, sweet, sour, bitter. Some cultures regard savoriness and piquance as major taste experiences, and taste buds can also detect fatty acids as a distinct flavor.
Taste also determines texture and temperature.
Smell is capable of a much wider variance because it detects actual chemical molecules released into the air, and further refines them (as does taste) by their intensity (or molecular concentration).
Smell and TasteThe ability to distinguish various foods relies predominantly on the sense of smell. This explains why foods seem to have little taste for a person who is suffering from a head cold. The taste and smell of appetizing foods prepare the digestive tract for digestion by stimulating the flow of saliva in the mouth and gastric juice in the stomach. Our chemorecptors used for both taste and smell adapt quickly to any stimulus.One reason Americans may be becoming more obese as a population is that we serve too much food in one course. It is usually the case that we actually stop tasting our food after the 3rd or 4th bite, but we don't realize it because we are still smelling it. The nasal cavity and oral cavity are closely connected, separated only by the palate. So it makes sense that the two senses go hand in hand.
An ExperimentI recently did a science experiment for the school science fair. My results said that what you smell does affect what you taste. I had people eat starburst candy while smelling vanilla extract. The majority of the people said that the smell of the vanilla made the starburst taste odd. Others couldn't even taste while they were smelling the vanilla.
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∙ 15y agoWhat you see and smell on the plate definitely affects the way the food tastes. If you smell something raunchy, 7 out of 10 times it'll taste just as it smells. However, if you hold your nose while taking a bite, it won't taste as bad...almost bland, actually. As for the sight, not so much. You can't smell through your eyes. However, if something looks unappetizing you expect it taste bad...so when you taste it, it more likely will taste bad, because it's already in your head how it'll taste.
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∙ 13y agoyes it does my fine friend without smell when we eat we wouldn't be able to smell mints when we eat them its like when you have a cold your all bunged up so if you try drinking, smelling or eating the smell always seems a little different.
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∙ 15y agoyes,smell dose afect your taste. smell is an important part of taste. without smell you would not taste any thing. so if you were born with no sense of smell you were also born with no taste.
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∙ 14y agoYes the sense of taste is very closely related to the sense of smell. Loss of smell drastically reduces the sense of taste.
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∙ 14y agoyes it does, greatly smell is 40% of taste i believe.
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∙ 13y agoif you smell something that's what you except to taste. So you taste what you smell.
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What effect does sight and smell have on taste?
Smell and taste are linked through the vomeronasal organ. No sense of smell would mean no taste because 'taste' is smell plus the ability to detect sweet, sour and salty on various parts of the tongue. Sight is more of a trigger for appetite and does not directly affect the ability to taste although some say that 'blind tasting' trains the senses to appreciate flavours. but smell isn't everything! there are millions of taste buds on your tongue that allow you to sence the texture and TASTE of the food. For more information go to the science buddies website (see related link).
How many catching a cold affect your sense of taste?
The sense of smell and taste are closely intertwined. When nasal congestion occurs during a cold, the taste you have can be affected to where you can only have the base tastes of salty, sweet, bitter, or sour.
What is the second sense you lose during the dying process?
(p) touch > sight > hearing > taste> smell > telekinesis
How many major sense organs are in the human body?
there are 5 major sense organs in the human body--sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch
What is your largest sense organ?
The human body has five sense organs: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. The largest sense organ is touch, which involves the skin.
How does your sense of tast affect your sense of smell?
Smell is an important part of taste. without smell you would not taste anything. So if you don't have a sense of smell you won't have the sense of taste eather.
If you have asthma does it affect how you taste and smell food?
Having Asthma doesn't affect your sense of smell and taste
Does smell affect the sense taste?
yes
What is a five letter word for sense?
taste, touch, smell, sight
The sense of sight can be classified as?
The sense of sight is one of the five senses. The other four senses are hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
What sense organs are in the nervous system?
sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing
What is your most important sense from hear taste sight touch and smell?
Touch
How does the sense of smell affect sense of taste?
The senses are all somewhat connected
What is the fifth sense of human?
We have 5 senses sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste
How do rhinos sense things?
A rhinoceros has the same kinds of senses that we have, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. Their sense of sight is not nearly as good as our is, however, and like most animals they depend more on their sense of smell.
How does the working of your sense of smell affect your sense of taste?
Think about when you get a stuffy nose. When you lose your sense of smell it impairs your sense of taste.
Do outside odors effect the sense of taste?
Sense of taste is largely affected by the sense of smell. So outside odors will positively or negatively affect the sense of taste.
