why cant you taste anything when you have a cold ??

Question

and thats when your nose isnt plugged up ..

Answer 1

Your tongue only can differentiate 4 flavors: sweet, salty, sour (or tangy), and bitter. About 90% of what you perceive as taste actually comes through your sense of smell. When you have a cold, usually either your nose is stopped up so you can't smell and/or your sinuses are inflammed, so smell isn't getting past your sinuses. Either way, most of your sense of taste is gone along with your sense of smell.

Try this experiment sometime to see what I mean: cut a slice of potato and a slice of apple and a slice of onion. Close your eyes and pinch your nose closed. Breathe in and out through your mouth a couple of times, then have a friend feed you a bite of one of the slices in front of you. Chances are very good that you won't be able to tell one from another until you stop pinching your nose closed.

Answer 2

your nose may not be congested, but if you have a cold, your sinuses are. the sinus is the portion of your nasal cavity that can effect your scnese of taste.

Answer 3

When you have upper respiratory infection, all your taste and smell buds are destroyed by the inflammation. Hence you can neither smell nor taste a cup of coffee/tea.

Answer 4

when you eat your breathing and you brain is telling you wrether you like it or not but when you have a cold you have to breath through you mouth and with a sick tast all ready you cant tast the food that you are eating and your brain is just leting you know that you are to sick to taste nothing

Answer 5

u cant taste anything cuz your taste buds are fried