Falon Muncy - Scientific Explanation (Taste/Smell)

Scientific Reason for Taste/Smell

Don't blame your taste buds when your food loses it's flavor. Blame your stuffed up nose! Did you know that around 70% we actually taste comes from our sense of smell. Bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors are perceived by our taste buds. 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, just beneath the brain and behind the bridge of the nose. If mucus in your nasal passages becomes too thick, air and odor molecules can't reach your olfactory receptor cells. Your brain receives no signal identifying the odor, and everything we eat tastes similar. Of all our senses, smell is most primal.