Why sugar is not tested when nose get blocked?
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Your tongue is not as refined at telling flavours apart, so your nose is an important part of tasting. When you have a cold, your nose gets blocked up and the chemicals from the food can't get through. This is why food can taste bland or different
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Seventy to seventy-five percent of what we perceive as taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Taste buds allow us to perceive only bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors. Its the odor molecules from food that give us most of our taste sensation.
When you put food in your mouth, odor molecules from that food travel through the passage between your nose and mouth to olfactory receptor cells at the top of your nasal cavity.
During cold, the mucus in nasal passages becomes too thick, due to which air and odor molecules cant reach the olfactory receptor cells. Thus, brain receives no signal identifying the odor, and everything we eat tastes much the same.