The smell of snail powder was smelled or tasted?

There are too many "no last resort" in people's life

I have to go to work for life for life

We must wear a mask for preventing epidemic prevention

and also

I have to take bitter medicine for health

However, for the medicine that is difficult to swallow

I heard that if you squeeze your nose and eat it, you will not suffer

Not to mention, it really has some effect

In fact, the taste can not only "taste"

You can also "smell"!

It's like ...

Snail powder

Taste can only let us taste 5 flavors

Taste is a feeling of direct chemical stimulation.

Feel the taste, depending on the taste buds of our tongue, oral and pharynx mucosa. On average, an adult has 2000 to 4,000 taste buds, and taste buds are updated every week.

In these taste buds, there are sensory cells connected to the nerves, also known as "flavor hair", which are the key parts of the taste feel.

When we eat, the taste buds are stimulated by chewing, tongue and saliva, the taste buds are stimulated, the taste of the flavor recognizes the taste of food, and the information that feels feels from the flavor nerve to the brain taste center, which produces the taste and tastes the taste of food. Essence

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Although the types of chemicals are unlimited and the taste is ever -changing.

However, we seem to only distinguish between four or five basic flavors, namely acid, sweetness, bitterness, and salty. The fifth is "umami".

The name of "umami" comes from Japanese, which refers to the taste produced by sodium glutamate.

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Therefore, if there is no sense of smell, we can only taste the uniformity of sweet and sour and salty taste. For example, just taste Sprite and Coke with taste, you can only drink similar sweetness, and it is difficult to distinguish the slight difference between the two.

Recognition of the smell of smell

Humans can distinguish and remember 10,000 different odors. This is due to a small area of ​​the mucous membrane inside our nose, that is, the olfactory epithelium, which contains functional nerve cells, that is, the smell receptor. These receptors have hair -like protrusions, which are cilia, which are used to detect odors.

When the molecules in the air enter the nasal cavity to stimulate the cilia, it will cause the nearby nerve fiber to produce nerve impulses. This nerve impulses will be transmitted to a large -level nerve cell (sniffing ball), which will then pass to a more advanced olfactory center, causing a sense of smell.

The area of ​​the brain memory smell is also stimulated. These memories help us distinguish between and distinguish the different odors we have in our lives.

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Interestingly, there are two ways to smell the smell. One is the Orthonasal Olfaction, which is to detect the smell of the outside world through the nasal cavity, such as the magnolia fragrance of the magnolia at home, the flavor of the perfume sprayed by the beauty lovers, and the fragrance of the meals floating from the restaurant.

The other is Retronasal Olfaction, that is, to detect the smell in the mouth through the mouth and pharynx.

People's recognition of many food taste is carried out through the nasal path.

When you chew food, the smell molecules enter the back of your nose. Your taste buds will tell you whether the food is sweet, sour, bitter or salty.

Your nose will distinguish the details, such as whether the sweetness is grapes or apples.

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When the smell comes from the back of the nose, we mix the sense of taste and smell, and mistakenly believe that the effect of taste. Imagine the sour taste of lemon and the unique aroma of the flavor of the unique aroma is actually the result of the integration of smell and taste.

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The nose is like a silent father. I love you deeply and real. Where you can't notice it, you have played an auxiliary role to help you taste the ever -changing food taste.

Now, try to block your nose with your fingers and eat something. In some cases, even if it does not completely disappear, the taste will weaken.

If you pinch your nose and eat snail powder, the taste of sour bamboo shoots will weaken a lot!

In the same way, Li Weijia squeezed her nose to drink bean juice

Therefore, it will feel the bitterness weakened with the medicine that is difficult to swallow with my nose. Nevertheless, it is not recommended to pinch the nose and take medicine in order to reduce the taste of the medicine. In particular, children should not be allowed to do so (because the child's nose is irrigated, it is easy to cause the drug to be inhaled into the trachea by mistake, causing suffocation).

Smart like you, do you think it is best to swallow the bitter medicine when you have a cold and nose?

Indeed, if a person's olfactory system is damaged, for example, during a cold or influenza, this person may suffer from olfactory symptoms, unable to handle odor and taste, and then affect the recognition of taste.

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The following factors will also affect the recognition taste

age

With the increase of age, especially those over 60 years old, the sensitivity of the sense of smell will begin to decline because the number of olfactory sensors in the back of the nasal cavity is reduced, and the regeneration rate of the sensor cells decreases.

At the same time, the taste buds will become less, and the remaining taste buds are not so sharp.

This will first affect our sensitivity to the recognition of salty or sweetness, so don't blame your parents to eat too salty, because their recognition of the taste has begun to weaken.

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Certain diseases

Any stimulus to the inner layer of the nose and make it feel sullen, runny, itchy or runny nose, which will affect our sense of smell.

This includes ordinary colds, sinus infections, allergies, sneezing, nosebleeds, influenza, and new coronal virus infections (about 5%of people will have olfactory dysfunction after infection). Because the edema caused by these diseases can hinder the air flow of the nasal air tract and the motion of the smell of the smell. Fortunately, in most cases, when these diseases improve, your sense of smell will slowly return to normal.

But the following situations are not very optimistic.

Lost sense of smell may be the early warning signal of dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson disease.

Other diseases, including diabetes, Huntington's disease, Claine Feltin syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Pigtitochia, and dry syndrome, which will also damage the nerves that lead to the center of the brain.

If you can't taste the taste or smell the smell for a long time, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible to exclude these diseases.

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drug

Some prescription drugs and non -prescription medicines will change your sense of smell or taste, especially antibiotics and antihypertensive drugs.

Some vitamin deficiency

Losing taste and smell may be a way to tell you low vitamin content. Some cases and drugs may cause you. Your body lacks vitamins related to odor and taste, such as vitamin A, B6, B12, etc.

Smoke

Tobacco tobacco will hurt or kill the brain to classify cells that sort the smell and taste. Smoking can also cause the body to produce more mucus and reduce the number of our taste buds.

Seeing this, you have no reason not to believe this: protect our sense of smell and taste, so that you can eat it, and your body is great.

At the same time, you can use the characteristics of the integration of smell and taste, squeeze your nose and swallow, but you do n’t like to eat but it is good for your body (be careful of the food into the trachea by mistake) so that you will not taste its taste.

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