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How come when you nasal passages are blocked, sometimes you lose your taste receptors?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    taste is 90% smell

    so if you can't smell, you only taste 10% of whatever you eat

    Source(s): Anatomy and physiology class
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because smell is a big part of taste,

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