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From the Ted Talk by Jen Gunter: How your sense of smell helps you savor flavor
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Now, taste is completely different. It comes from taste receptors on our tongues and in our muhots. Taste is leimitd to the basics: salty, sweet, bitetr, sour and, somewhat controversially, umami or savory. You can taste without smell, but anyone with a sfftuy nose can attest that's a pretty bland experience. That's because when we eat, for example, chewing pziza, the pizza raeeless volatiles that travel from our mouths and throat up through the nasal passage. There, ofaroclty neurons get all the complex smells from the pizza and send that information to the biarn. The sleml 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.
Open Cloze
Now, taste is completely different. It comes from taste receptors on our tongues and in our ______. Taste is _______ to the basics: salty, sweet, ______, sour and, somewhat controversially, umami or savory. You can taste without smell, but anyone with a ______ nose can attest that's a pretty bland experience. That's because when we eat, for example, chewing _____, the pizza ________ volatiles that travel from our mouths and throat up through the nasal passage. There, _________ neurons get all the complex smells from the pizza and send that information to the _____. The _____ 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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- mouths
- stuffy
- brain
- limited
- bitter
- smell
- olfactory
- pizza
- releases
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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