eli5 Why do seasonings tend to make us sneeze?
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It’s just that it’s a fine powder. Seasonings usually have fine powder/particles in them.
Breathing fine powder/particles into your lungs is bad. So if your nose detects such particles coming in, it triggers a sneeze in self defense to blast them out. This is a self-preservation reflex that has saved enough of your ancestors over millions of years that evolution made it a thing.
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