The kitchen might be the best place for people to counter taste and smell loss. Using more herbs and spices, for example, can enhance flavor.

For people who are dealing with a loss of smell and taste after battling COVID-19, the side effects and impact on their life can last for months. How are doctors "fixing" the problem? It's a simple ...

If you traveled to a new destination hoping to sample the local cuisine and ingredients, be sure to prep your nose before ...

Have you ever noticed how food tastes bland when you have a blocked nose? That’s because taste and smell are deeply interconnected. Our tongue may detect the basic tastes, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, ...

A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that the brain’s taste cortex responds not only to flavors on the tongue but also to aromas that reach the nose while eating, known as retronasal ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

Janina Seubert receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 947886) and from the Swedish ...