The Science of the Senses: Smell & Taste

Before I watched this,I had never thought of smell and taste as chemical senses. Duh! The poor lady who was a wine taster and buyer that lost both senses from a bump on the head.


snip

Smell and taste are the most mysterious and misunderstood senses. What we know about them pales in comparison with what we don't. In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. Most people wrongly assume that taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory and bitter, is the aroma.



http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/scienceofthesenses/smell.html