Question

food doesn't taste so good when you are suffering from cold.why?

Answer 1

When we chew food, the aroma of the food travels to our nasal cavity. In the nose, there is a patch holding hair cells or cilia that detect and carry the odor-related signals to the area of the brain (olfactory bulb) that processes odor information. The information from both the gustatory cortex and the olfactory bulb get combined to give us a sense of flavor. The region for this mixing is thought to be the orbito-frontal region.