Why can’t you taste anything when you plug your nose?
In: Biology
Because taste is mainly made up of substances that can only be picked up by the receptors in the nose. Our tongue is only useful for a handful of them such as sweet, sour, bitter, salty, etc.
You can try this at home: make a solution of 1 parts sugar and 9 parts water, taste it with you nose plugged, and compare it without plugging your nose. It’ll taste very different.
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