It's smell and taste, evidence being when your nose is blocked your taste is greatly limited.
The flavor of food is influenced by both smell and taste
The senses of taste and smell are closely related.
The senses And the brain. The heart and lungs.
Chemical senses are senses that require chemicals to stimulate them. Taste and smell are both chemical senses. All other senses are considered mechanical or electrical.
Smell and Taste are the two senses that depend on chemoreceptors
Taste and smell.
The sense of smell and taste.
If you lose your sense of smell your sense of taste generally goes with it, since the two senses are closely linked.
Peanut butter and jellyTwo Great Tastes That taste Great Together
Taste and smell are closely linked because they both help us perceive flavors. When we eat food, aromas are released that travel to the back of our nasal cavity, where they contribute to our perception of taste. This is why our sense of taste is diminished when our sense of smell is compromised.
peanut butter and jelly
A plugged nose doesn't really affect taste. Your taste buds still work as well as they did before you plugged your nose. The sense of smell in intimately connected with that of taste. We're used to smelling so many things before we put them in our mouths to eat them that we do it unconsciously (connect smell and taste, that is). We grow up with both of them working together and never know the difference until we think about it or do some experiments. They are just working together like they were designed to do and we just roll with it. There is quite a bit of research that has been published on the subject. This writer recalls seeing some experiments where subjects swore that something tasted like a banana when it had no taste at all and only smelled like the longish yellow fruit we are so familiar with. Smell and taste are two independent senses, but we are so used to using them simultaneously that it takes practice to "split" the two off and evaluate the smell of something in a separate activity to an act of tasting that thing. (There are people who work in labs whose job it is to evaluate things only by smell and then separately only by taste. Takes some skillz to do that kind of work. And lots and lots of practice.)