Whats the connection between smell and taste?
Most of your sense of taste is really about your sense of smell. Do you think that the spaghetti and meatballs you’re eating taste delicious? Much of the reason is because you like their smell. In fact, you’re doing a lot of sniffing. Not only are you smelling before you take a bite, but while you are chewing, odor molecules from the ground-up food inside your mouth float upwards taking that remarkable smell journey. Factoids • If your sniffer is in peak performance you can tell the difference between 4000-10,000 smells. Now that’s heavy-duty sniffing! • WARNING: As you grow older, your sense of smell gets worse. Children are likely to have much more subtle senses of smell than parents or grandparents. • MAYBE YOU WANT TO BE BLOODHOUND? They smell at least 1000 times better than humans. • MAYBE YOU WANT TO BE A MALE MOTH? Just a dozen odor molecules from a lady moth a block away can drive a male moth crazy! • BE GLAD YOU’RE NOT A DOLPHIN OR WHALE — Instead of two nostrils in the middl
