2006-09-11 13:51:09 · 13 answers · asked by joe b 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The nose and mouth share access to the throat, through which we breathe and eat.
If the nose was below the mouth, food would drop into it while eating, and we would choke easier.
2006-09-11 13:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Rich N 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think everyone else might have answered your question by now, but this is linked, did you know that a banana doesn't have a taste, only a smell! If you hold your nose, get someone to open the banana for you, bite it and chew it and swallow it, it doesn't taste! At least not of banana anyway. Lots of things we eat, only taste the way they do because we can smell them.
2006-09-12 09:11:03 · answer #2 · answered by Canary Yellow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you only have one throat it has to cope with your breathing as well as your eating. If the nose was below your mouth then gravity would have our noses fill up with liquids and solids. Not a nice thought and certainly not practical.
2006-09-11 21:01:01 · answer #3 · answered by Premdas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your nose holds your glasses up and because your nose is where it is, you can use the scent of the food you eat to taste it better! That's why you can't really taste your food as well when you have a cold.
2006-09-11 21:06:12 · answer #4 · answered by Senorita Margarita 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not know the exact scientific answer....but i have heard a good amount of the flavors you taste while eating come from what you smell. They ask you to smell wine before you taste it at wine tastings....
So with that, i gues it is so you don't have to put the food where your chin is before you stick it in your mouth....you can put it in your mouth and smell it at the same time
2006-09-11 20:53:56 · answer #5 · answered by CBL123 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question. It would be much better wouldn't it...cos runny noses and mouths are much to close together... and what with the laws of gravity...no what I mean.
2006-09-15 11:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Valli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is so that you can smell food before you taste it.
Also all the 'plumbing' is linked & we 'taste' several flavours etc with our nose rather than mouth. Odd eh?
2006-09-12 03:14:13 · answer #7 · answered by Pretorian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that any excess smoke from your cigarette, that you might otherwise miss, floats upward into your nose giving you the chance to breathe it in - therby allowing you to enjoy 100% of the carcinogens that are slowly killing off you and your ilk.
Am I close?
2006-09-11 23:50:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So you can smell your beer breathe after a good night out. Or a particularly good belch has qualities that shouldn't be missed.
2006-09-12 08:01:05 · answer #9 · answered by singa_dude 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cos then the nose aint in the way when youre eating.
2006-09-14 14:47:02 · answer #10 · answered by supersam82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋