Smell and taste

Although you may think no difference exists between taste and flavor, they are not exactly the same. Your mouth tastes food, but smell affects flavor. If you cannot smell, your ability to experience the flavor of what you eat may be hindered. While eating, odors from food travel to the nose, and receptor cells at the nasal cavity process the odors. The technical term is retronasal olfaction. Since eating is essential to human survival, smell This represents yet another important way smell affects our day-to-day lives.