Is it possible to taste something without being able to smell it?

Answer 1

yes
put not completely

http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/tstesmll.html Seventy to seventy-five percent of what we perceive as taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Taste buds allow us to perceive only bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors. It's the odor molecules from food that give us most of our taste sensation.
When you put food in your mouth, odor molecules from that food travel through the passage between your nose and mouth to olfactory receptor cells at the top of your nasal cavity, just beneath the brain and behind the bridge of the nose. If mucus in your nasal passages becomes too thick, air and odor molecules can't reach your olfactory receptor cells. Thus, your brain receives no signal identifying the odor, and everything you eat tastes much the same. You can feel the texture and temperature of the food, but no messengers can tell your brain, "This cool, milky substance is chocolate ice cream." The odor molecules remain trapped in your mouth. The pathway has been blocked off to those powerful perceivers of smell--the olfactory bulbs.

Answer 2

smelling something is part of the tasting process. like, if your nose is all clogged up, you would not be able to taste things very well. you can also get a good idea of what things taste like, by smelling them.

Answer 3

Yes, if you think of some kind of food, say pizza or some kind of pie say cherry pie, if you already know what those taste like, then you can taste them again by just thinking of them. I forget what it is called but my fiance' told me about that lol. It's as if your taste buds have a memory, now if you don't know what something tastes like, say chocolate or something else then you can't taste that object.

Answer 4

Yes, we taste oxygen everyday without knowing what it smells like.

Answer 5

confident, you are able to desire to have your experience of scent to be able to flavor (cos smelling the food is definitely one of those huge area of it - think of how food tastes while u have a chilly and can't scent) yet once you had no tongue (severe occasion yet ought to ensue) or in case you had a tongue yet no flavor buds then you particularly does not be able to flavor (no receptors for it) yet you will possibly be able to sniff because of the fact the olfaction receptors on your nostril might nonetheless be there and dealing.

Answer 6

ya. i was sick before and i couldnt smell anything i ate. i couldnt taste it either

Answer 7

Yes, but it may taste different.

Why don't you try it?

Answer 8

Sure hold your nose with your fingers and swallow---don't chew........

Answer 9

yes...................if you close your nose and taste it!