Question

how come when your nose is plugged, you cant taste anything?

Answer 1

i dont know

Answer 2

me neither....

Answer 3

i pretty sure u can bt i dont really know

Answer 4

i never thought about it

Answer 5

cuz im sick and my nose is plugged and i cant taste anything....

Answer 6

It is all about receptors :)

Answer 7

its horrible..i couldnt taste my mac and cheese...:(

Answer 8

lol

Answer 9

lol lolly:)

Answer 10

Well you should still be able to taste becuase there are receptors on your tung, that also play a role, just like reaper said.
However the.. well... biochemical signaling... depends on many pathways, so if one fail, a whole other result may be the outcome. For an example, when you smell a strawbery it affect more than 100 diffrent receptores... and that combo only (along with your tast receptores on your tounge) make that particular smell and taste for strawberies :)

Answer 11

wow big words

Answer 12

ooooh weird...

Answer 13

hey lolly blow ur nose

Answer 14

If you are intrested in the biochemical reason for things like this I suggest you read the following:
Axel, R. 1995. The molecular logic of smell. Scientific American. October. 130-137

Answer 15

lol

Answer 16

or eat a halls tht works for me

Answer 17

reaper..you dont think i already tried that?

Answer 18

just chew em up?!

Answer 19

ooh ima get some halls..brb!!

Answer 20

no not really

Answer 21

LOLLY! I STUCK UR HALL IN UR NIKIE!! member??

Answer 22

i think its still there:)

Answer 23

hahah yup i found it..:)

Answer 24

lol!!!!

Answer 25

wat about vaporud

Answer 26

You could eat some zinc.... it have a good effect on the sense of taste

Answer 27

I CANT TASTE THE HALLS!!!

Answer 28

awww..... its no hope!!!

Answer 29

wow.. u must be REALLY plugged..:/

Answer 30

oh wait...its kinda workin...

Answer 31

lol

Answer 32

blow ur nose like u never blown b 4

Answer 33

hahaha but it huuuuurts!!!

Answer 34

but dont honk!! it makes it wooorse!

Answer 35

honk.

Answer 36

so wat if it hurt blow woman

Answer 37

jst like my shirt says GET SOMEEEE

Answer 38

NO LOLLY!!

Answer 39

get some what? tissues?

Answer 40

u dont get it did u see my shirt

Answer 41

get some spongebob?

Answer 42

haha

Answer 43

im literaly holding it up for u

Answer 44

lol

Answer 45

hahaha

Answer 46

u want me to use ur shirt? hmmm im good..lol

Answer 47

:D

Answer 48

ohh lolly

Answer 49

i know wat to do

Answer 50

reaper....

Answer 51

what?!!!

Answer 52

i jst remember i had a stuffed nose and my grandma alway watches dr oz idk y and she told me go and turn on the hot water only in the shower and close the door and sit there in the steam and try to breath through ur nos and keep blowing it

Answer 53

dont give me attitude

Answer 54

jk

Answer 55

i have a pep talk in every drop..lol this one was "Elicit a few 'wows' today." aaand my dad would tell me to just man up..:( im not gonna be able to do that...:( but its a good idea:)

Answer 56

yeah some how dr oz is a great dr

Answer 57

haha well hes a DR sooo...

Answer 58

bt still it works 4 me so y not u

Answer 59

it would prob work... but for now the cough drop is doin fine..

Answer 60

dont wory yes it hot bt it wont make a fire :D

Answer 61

jk

Answer 62

see my hair

Answer 63

my parents want me to cut it

Answer 64

really? hmm.. u should keep it:)

Answer 65

ik

Answer 66

A plugged nose doesn't really affect taste. Your taste buds still work as well as they did before you plugged your nose. The sense of smell in intimately connected with that of taste. We're used to smelling so many things before we put them in our mouths to eat them that we do it unconsciously (connect smell and taste, that is).

We grow up with both of them working together and never know the difference until we think about it or do some experiments. They are just working together like they were designed to do and we just roll with it. There is quite a bit of research that has been published on the subject. This writer recalls seeing some experiments where subjects swore that something tasted like a banana when it had no taste at all and only smelled like the longish yellow fruit we are so familiar with.

Smell and taste are two independent senses, but we are so used to using them simultaneously that it takes practice to "split" the two off and evaluate the smell of something in a separate activity to an act of tasting that thing. (There are people who work in labs whose job it is to evaluate things only by smell and then separately only by taste. Takes some skillz to do that kind of work. And lots and lots of practice.)

Answer 67

one time they paid me to cut my hair

Answer 68

really? lol niice:)

Answer 69

my hair and my nails dont grow very fast..:/

Answer 70

bt i payed for the cut hahahaha

Answer 71

hahaha well thats not much of a win..:P

Answer 72

i payed by grandma 5 to cut it and mabe 7