is it true that if you can't smell you have no sense of taste either?

Question

i just heard that if you lose your sense of smell then you also lose your sense of taste, as the two are inseperable...

just wondering if there is any possibility that one could have one of those senses without the other.....

i have a friend who cant smell... but he claims he can taste just fine. is he telling the truth or just messing with us?

Answer 1

juz messin i guess sweety...well partly i suppose.lol...try this experiment

take sum coffe, hold ur nose and gulp it down without smelling it..itll pretty much tste like warm water...the same goes for ANY warm beverage...but if u concentrate ull get a SLIGHT hint of theso called "taste"...tit happens so becoz the receptors kinda share the same bunch and same kinda neurons infact....

well, nw abt ur q. you MAY be able to smell and nt taste and vice versa if the the nerve ending or the receptors arent working fine......thts the only way ur frnd maybe tellin the truth.

Answer 2

The sense of taste is greatly diminished. Some tastes are not tasted at all. I've known two people, one born without, one born with, who then lost it after head trauma; both could not smell nor taste when meat was going bad. Yes, your nose has a lot to do with what you taste. I wonder, if you lost your sense of taste, would your sense of smell compensate so that you could taste things, albeit pseudo-taste? If you lost you're sense of taste, I guess maybe you'd be Brittney Spears.
That's my two cents for ya.

Answer 3

Hello my dear,
Smell and the taste sensor are totally differ each others.
The brain which collected the sensor are also difference.
If some one loss the one of the capability of the five sense, in fact the others remind sense will be increased the sensitivity.
In example if some one get loss the sense of seeing object, in fact the sense of hearing was then increased as well as smell sense; He or she may heal the direction of wind better, or might smell the flower or may be river far away before be there.
Your friend are right, he may be get taste better then you in detail, and the loss of smell not make loss on taste too
Regards,
An Naturopathy Doctor with sense of Human

Answer 4

No; smell & taste ARE closely linked. Usually, if you cannot smell, your taste buds are off, too...but he may be telling the truth.
Cook him something & put different seasonings in it. Ask him to distinguish the subtle flavors & see if he can identify them.

Answer 5

Yes, I have a friend of mine who was in a bad accident and now he can not smell so he has to eat Tabasco or some other extremely potent flavor for his taste buds to register it.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

75% of taste depends upon smell

Answer 8

If you have a blocked nose, you can't really taste anything either so i guess it's true that you can't taste without smell.
The two are connected, literally.

Answer 9

almost yes cause when you get cold you can,t taste the food as its usual taste

Answer 10

No.