The New York Times

Can You Improve Your Sense of Taste?

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Secret link between taste and smell: Why they are more connected than you think

Have you ever noticed how food tastes bland when you have a blocked nose? That’s because taste and smell are deeply interconnected. Our tongue may detect the basic tastes, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, ...
Food & Wine

Your Brain Can Actually ‘Taste’ Smells — and Scientists Finally Know Why

A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that the brain’s taste cortex responds not only to flavors on the tongue but also to aromas that reach the nose while eating, known as retronasal ...
The Monterey County Herald

Barbara Intermill, On Nutrition: Sniffing out relief for loss of smell and taste

John T. reads this column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and writes about his experience with COVID-19: “I had minimal symptoms with the exception of my loss of taste and smell. I am a little ...
The Conversation

Smell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anything

Janina Seubert receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 947886) and from the Swedish ...