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From the Ted Talk by Jen Gunter: How your sense of smell helps you savor flavor
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
Now, _____ is completely different. It comes from taste receptors on our tongues and in our mouths. Taste is limited to the basics: salty, sweet, bitter, sour and, somewhat controversially, umami or savory. You can taste without smell, but anyone with a stuffy nose can attest that's a ______ bland __________. That's because when we eat, for example, chewing _____, the pizza ________ volatiles that ______ from our mouths and throat up through the _____ passage. There, olfactory neurons get all the complex smells from the pizza and send that ___________ to the brain. The smell and taste work together to help us enjoy food. When our nose isn't working properly and food seems flavorless, it's because we're only tasting those basic ______ without any of the complex odors detected through smell.
Solution
- nasal
- information
- releases
- tastes
- experience
- taste
- travel
- pretty
- pizza
Original Text
Now, taste is completely different. It comes from taste receptors on our tongues and in our mouths. Taste is limited to the basics: salty, sweet, bitter, sour and, somewhat controversially, umami or savory. You can taste without smell, but anyone with a stuffy nose can attest that's a pretty bland experience. That's because when we eat, for example, chewing pizza, the pizza releases volatiles that travel from our mouths and throat up through the nasal passage. There, olfactory neurons get all the complex smells from the pizza and send that information to the brain. The smell and taste work together to help us enjoy food. When our nose isn't working properly and food seems flavorless, it's because we're only tasting those basic tastes without any of the complex odors detected through smell.
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