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We have 5 senses: smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing. Often times this sense overlap, or interact. It's a phenomenon called sensory interaction. The correlation between smell and taste is one of the most obvious ones that we can actual experience, say when we have a cold and food doesn't taste as good. In order to savor a food, it's aroma is important. The smell of a food can amplify its taste. For example, a strawberry scent can make a drink taste sweeter. If you were to plug your nose and close your eyes, you could rely only on your seemingly weaker sense of taste and your sense of texture to identify a food. A slice of apple would be virtually indistinguishable from a chunk of raw potato. Flavor is essentially a combination of texture, taste and smell. Many people, particularly those who have texure issues, do not want to eat a food that tastes the same but is softer than usual. Sometimes the texture can offset the taste and make the food completely displeasing. But smell is important. By smelling an apple's fresh sweetness, and hearing the crisp when you slice into it, your taste is amplified because you know the familiar taste of an apple and what to expect. Through the combined senses, you know that what your eating is an apple and not a raw potato. People who have a hard time with hearing can also benefit from seeing someone mouth words, or have an improved sense of hearing by having closed captioning and being able to read along. Since the words they are hearing are being associated with words they can see or familiar mouth movements, the brain can organize interpret the hearing as if it were improved, even though it's just as bad. It takes all of our senses, in combination, to be able to completely interpret and appreciate the world. However, because of this interaction, the loss or deterioration of one sense can often be offset by the other 4 senses, and help to make sense of the world.
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∙ 14y agoThe tiny hairs in our nose clean the dust particles in the air
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∙ 12y agothere are no cells that help you smell. you are able to smell because of your olfactory cranial nerve.
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what job do the nose?
The nose (nasal passages) help to filter the air. You also taste food with your nose. Try holding your nose while eating you won't be able to taste your food.
What job does the nose do?
It cleans the air that you breath in.And your mouth does not So you can smell, taste, breathe, and catch dust and bateria so it doesn't harm your body.
Why do you not tast sweets?
You can taste sweets or anything by the help of the tongue but if you have a cold or any other problems so you can't really taste food. The nose is the sense that also makes us taste food so if you have a problem, you should go to the doctor.
Why you only get full taste of some food when you chew it well?
Because when you chew it, your taste buds react and they send messages to the brain telling what the food is like. Your nose also tastes food with its smelling power, so if you hold your nose, the food will taste different.
Can you taste better with your nose plugged or not plugged?
you can taste food, but it tastes bland. your nose helps you differenciate tastes. plugging your nose cuts off the oxygen going to your olfactory senses, which is a componet to being able to taste food.
How do you perceive foods?
You perceive the taste of food with both your tongue and your nose.
How do you use smell in your everyday life?
Mostly, smell is used to help in the ability to taste food. (If you plug your nose, you can`t taste food as well). Also, it can alert you of danger. ( If there is a house fire when yo are sleeping, you smell the smoke and it will alert you).
Why does food taste better when it can be smelled?
Because if you have a blocked nose cant taste da food and if you dont have a blocked if taste without smell tastelike different if dont smell.
Why does a cold influence your taste?
Because usually your nose is stuffed up, and smells help you taste better :)
How can you get the smell and taste from food?
u smell it with ur nose and u taste with ur tongue when u lick it
What is the management methods of common cold?
The managing methods of the common cold are rest. Chicken noodle soup will also help your nose. Only eat the broth though. Drink orange juice too it will help get your taste back if you can't taste your food.
Are there taste buds in your nose?
No, there are no taste buds in your nose.
