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Because the sensation of taste is closely tied to your sense of smell. The combination of your taste buds and the smell of food is what makes your brain recognize a taste. When you have a cold, 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 because you're not getting the normal amount of "taste information" from your nose"

This is also why people hold their nose when eating something they don't like and why inhaling when you're eating spicy food makes them seem spicier.

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because you can't smell. Smell and taste are associated in our mouth, since the nose and tongue are so close together - it's almost impossible to taste food without smelling it - unless your nose is stopped up!

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Food tastes different because your sense of taste is closely linked to your sense of smell. When your sense of smell is impaired, such as when you have a cold or are otherwise ill, your sense of taste may be decreased or altered.

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Usually the reason why you can't taste things as well when you have a cold is because you are congested. A lot of taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Try holding your nose while you eat something; there is a change in how you taste something.

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Most of the taste sensation is created by smell also your taste buds may be covered in a phlem mucas dulling the taste.

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Mostly because of your nasal concessions and your taste buds

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You cant smell due to all of the snot in your nose, which, in turn, keeps you from being able to taste, not sure why or how that works, but not being able to smell means you cant taste either

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It is because your nose is clogged

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Why can't i taste anything when i have a cold is it bad?

During a cold, a congested nose is one of the symptoms, which restricts air flow through your nasal canal (nose). Taste is a combination of your tongue and nose breathing in air in order to product a taste. Without breathing through your nose, taste is not possible. This is the same premise in which plugging your nose while eating something distasteful lowers the severity of it.


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Does sense of smell and sight affect food taste?

Most of the time, what we call taste is intrinsicially tied to smell. Traditionally taste has only 4 measurable concepts: salty, sweet, sour, bitter. Some cultures regard savoriness and piquance as major taste experiences, and taste buds can also detect fatty acids as a distinct flavor.Taste also determines texture and temperature.Smell is capable of a much wider variance because it detects actual chemical molecules released into the air, and further refines them (as does taste) by their intensity (or molecular concentration).Smell and TasteThe ability to distinguish various foods relies predominantly on the sense of smell. This explains why foods seem to have little taste for a person who is suffering from a head cold. The taste and smell of appetizing foods prepare the digestive tract for digestion by stimulating the flow of saliva in the mouth and gastric juice in the stomach. Our chemorecptors used for both taste and smell adapt quickly to any stimulus. One reason Americans may be becoming more obese as a population is that we serve too much food in one course. It is usually the case that we actually stop tasting our food after the 3rd or 4th bite, but we don't realize it because we are still smelling it. The nasal cavity and oral cavity are closely connected, separated only by the palate. So it makes sense that the two senses go hand in hand.An ExperimentI recently did a science experiment for the school science fair. My results said that what you smell does affect what you taste. I had people eat starburst candy while smelling vanilla extract. The majority of the people said that the smell of the vanilla made the starburst taste odd. Others couldn't even taste while they were smelling the vanilla.


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The tongue has many functions. These include:- Digestion (taste, saliva, aid chewing by movement of food to the back of the throat)- Communication (speech)- KissingThe tongue is a very strong muscle. In fact, it's the strongest muscle in the human body. It helps you speak (pronounce letters clearly), and also helps you eat.Your tongue is used in the various forms of articulation, such as whistle, speech, singing and so on.It is also (and its native purpose) is to manipulate food in the mouth.We may also taste and touch things with our tongue.It is of minor use in removing debris from the teeth.

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