During severe cough and cold we lose taste of food. Give reasons for it.
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Flavor = Taste + Smell
What we call "Flavor" is a combination of taste and smell.
There are only five taste: salty sweet, sour, bitter and savory/umami. Compared to taste, there are virtually unlimited number of scents humans can detect.
So how many? It's one trillion according to The Science magazine:
"...roughly 1 trillion scents that the human nose and brain are capable of distinguishing from each other..."
Therefore, when your nose is blocked, basically you can only "taste" the food and unable to "smell", missing the majority of your food's flavor. This is the reason why you were unable to taste anything when you had a cold.
Flavor = Taste + Smell
What we call "Flavor" is a combination of taste and smell.
There are only five taste: salty sweet, sour, bitter and savory/umami. Compared to taste, there are virtually unlimited number of scents humans can detect.
So how many? It's one trillion according to The Science magazine:
"...roughly 1 trillion scents that the human nose and brain are capable of distinguishing from each other..."
Therefore, when your nose is blocked, basically you can only "taste" the food and unable to "smell", missing the majority of your food's flavor. This is the reason why you were unable to taste anything when you had a cold.
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Normally, the sensation of taste is also related to your sense of smell.
As well as the combination of your taste buds and the smell of food are also makes your brain recognize a taste.
Your nose gets clogged and you can't smell as well as you normally can so in your head, foods don't taste the same.
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