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How are smell and taste related? The answer is simple: When we taste, we use our sense of smell. Have you ever noticed why when you have a cold, or you've plugged your nose, you can't taste the food in your mouth? This is because we assume automatically that what we are smelling is going to taste that way. So it does. Most of the time. When you taste, you are using your sense of smell to kind of tell you what it is that your eating. If you were to close your eyes and hold your nose and then taste apples and a potato, you wouldn't be able to tell a difference. At all. Except maybe the texture.
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∙ 8y agoThe reason smell and tast are related is that some foods such as chocolate, odors travel up the nasal passage in the back of your throat. The olfactory cells are stimulated, and the tast and smell of chocolate are sensed. So when you have a snuffy nose and some foods seem tasteless, it may be because the food's molecules are blocked from contacting the olfactory cells in your nasal passages
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∙ 13y agoThe sense of smell and taste are related because of the olfactory nerve. This nerve is found at the back of the throat and it runs up to the nasal passage. You can tell that these two senses are related because when you have a blocked nose, you are not able to taste the food/drink until after you have swallowed. This is because the odours from the food travel up the olfactory nerve and into the nose. Since the nose is blocked, you arent able to smell it. THanks for listening, this is abc 123 news.
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∙ 15y agoBy losing your sense of smell your sense of taste is greatly affected and diminishes.
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∙ 9y agoThere is a great relationship between taste and smell. If something doesn't smell good you wont taste or eat it.
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∙ 14y agoYes it is. Try covering your nose when you are eating. You may discover that you can't taste the food as well as with your sense of smell.
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∙ 11y agoThe combination of taste and smell makes flavor.
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they are both chemical
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What is sensory interaction?
Sensory interaction is the principle that one sense my influence another sense. e.g. smell influences taste.
How are the senses taste and smell different?
the sense of smell is, because if you cant smell then you cant taste
What two senses are closely related?
The senses of taste and smell are closely related.
Flavor to taste as is to smell.?
Flavor is to tast as aroma or odor is to smell.
How is taste detected?
Taste and smell receptors are activated by chemicals.
How would you characterize the relationship between odor and taste?
Your ability to smell enhances your ability to taste.
What is sensory interaction?
Sensory interaction is the principle that one sense my influence another sense. e.g. smell influences taste.
What is the difference between flavour and fragrance?
You taste a flavour and you smell a fragrance
What is the difference between smell and taste?
well you see if you taste something you tasting the flavours in your mouth but if you smell something the sent is going through your nose
What is a word for the five senses working together?
Sensory interaction is the principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste.
What is the difference between texture and flavor?
a flavor is a taste whilst an aroma is a smell
What is the smell of oxygen?
oxygen it has no colour, taste or smell.
Does diamond have a smell or taste?
Diamonds are formed from carbon, and in this state, possess no taste or smell.
What is smell and taste mean?
Smell and taste are 2 of the 5 senses we humans have: smell, taste, hear, sight, and feel. Guess what? You use your nose to smell and tongue to taste. Surprise, surprise.
Is taste really smell?
No, taste and smell are very related though
Does taste or smell develop first in a baby?
I guess smell. What is there to taste?
Is gritty a taste or a smell?
Taste
