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zeratul98 t1_jabck7x wrote

Reply to comment by Caucasiafro in ELI5: If the tongue can only taste five basic flavors (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami), why isn't it possible to create any flavor by mixing those five together in precise combinations? by bokbokboi

A really weird and interesting thing I learned recently is that even though your nose is doing the smelling when you eat, it's different from smelling when you inhale. People feel a different response to the same compounds when they enter the olfactory center from the back of the throat than through their nostrils

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Bsmit992 t1_jabgkuj wrote

This blows my mind but makes perfect sense.

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