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4 iconic childhood snacks from the ’80s we can still taste in our memory

Childhood comfort foods fuse taste and smell into memories, which researchers call food-invoked nostalgia. Most '80s kids can still pull up the flavor of 1984 Cup-O-Noodles (the 'O' had not been ...
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Secret link between taste and smell: Why they are more connected than you think

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, ...
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Your Brain Can Actually ‘Taste’ Smells — and Scientists Finally Know Why

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 ...
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Smell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anything

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 ...