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What people call the taste of food is mainly smell, which is why a heavy cold flattens a meal.
Biology Facts, sourced to NIDCD.
What it means
The tongue reports a small number of basic qualities. Everything else, the difference between a strawberry and a raspberry, arrives through the back of the nose as you chew and swallow. Pinch your nostrils shut and eat a jellybean and it is sweet and nothing more. People who lose their sense of smell usually describe it as having lost their sense of taste.
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This fact is a cryptogram here: 74 letters over 17 different ones, graded easy.
- SourceNIDCD
- CollectionBiology Facts
- Difficultyeasy
- Length74 letters, 17 of them different
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