If you could not taste, you could not smell. Scientists are currently testing a theory that smell and taste are connected to memories. Your taste lets you know what is dangerous to eat and what is not. For example, if you were eating bleach, your taste receptors would tell you to stop.
Yes, your period can effect your sense of taste. Your hormones can have a big effect on your body physically and also neurologically, so during menstruation you may be more sensitive and that includes your sense of taste. It's similar to pregnancy, where many women find their sense of taste changes a lot.
Sense of taste is largely affected by the sense of smell. So outside odors will positively or negatively affect the sense of taste.
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there are 5 major sense organs in the human body--sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch
The tongue and the stomach
You have taste buds in your mouth that make it possible for you to sense taste.
Flavor and taste buds can be used when referring to sense of taste. Sense of taste can also be referred to as your taste buds. Taste buds can be used in place of the term, sense of taste.
What is being tasted is irrelevant. How is your sense of taste when you have a cold, or if you hold your nose? The great majoroty of what we perceive as taste is really smell.
The human body has five sense organs: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. The largest sense organ is touch, which involves the skin.
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It certainly reduces your sense of taste. Not sure how much of that is caused by effects on the tastebuds and how much on effects on smell.