How does smell affect taste?????

Question

please be specific... i am doing a science fair project and i need help!!

Answer 1

when you smell something, you are inctually inhaling small particles of whatever you are smelling. the particles actually flow through your nose and end up in the back of your mouth. the mind can easily perceive that as a specific taste.

Answer 2

How Does Smell Affect Taste

Answer 3

Check these out, they should help
1. Exploratorium: Your Sense of Taste: Relationship Between Taste and Smell
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/your_sense_of_taste/
This site states that 80-90% of what we perceive as "taste" is actually due to the sense of smell. The site also describes the sense of taste and how it works together with the sense of smell as well as giving a small experiment that you can do with lifesavers to test out what they are saying.

2. Newton's Apple: Taste and Smell
http://www.ktca.org/newtons/11/tstesmll.html
This site states that 70-75% of what perceive as taste comes from our sense of smell. It goes on to explain how the sense of taste works.

3. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: Taste and Taste Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/smelltaste/taste.asp
This site states that "flavors are recognized mainly through the sense of smell" and it uses chocolate as an example.

Answer 4

Let me put it this way, I very seriously doubt that the smell of Limburger cheeze endears many people to want to try and eat it.

Answer 5

You cannot taste smell.

Answer 6

Search google.....................................