{"id":9120,"date":"2017-04-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/2017\/04\/08\/riechen-und-schmecken\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:00:00","slug":"riechen-und-schmecken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/2017\/04\/08\/riechen-und-schmecken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Link Between Smell and Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Fraunces:ital,opsz,wght@0,9..144,380;0,9..144,520;1,9..144,420;1,9..144,500&#038;family=Space+Mono:wght@400;700&#038;family=Source+Sans+3:wght@400;500;600&#038;display=swap\">\n<style>\n  html, body, #wrapper, #main, .uncode-page, .page-wrapper, .content-wrap{\n    background:#faf5ec !important;\n  }\n  .iomj{\n    --iomh-bg:#faf5ec;\n    --iomh-surface:#f2ead9;\n    --iomh-surface-2:#ece0c8;\n    --iomh-ink:#2a2117;\n    --iomh-ink-soft:#4a3d2c;\n    --iomh-ink-dim:#8a7a5f;\n    --iomh-ember:#c14e1e;\n    --iomh-ember-2:#a63e15;\n    --iomh-line:#ddccac;\n    --iomh-serif:'Fraunces','Iowan Old Style',Georgia,serif;\n    --iomh-mono:'Space Mono','SFMono-Regular',Consolas,monospace;\n    --iomh-sans:'Source Sans 3','Segoe UI',sans-serif;<\/p>\n<p>    background:var(--iomh-bg);\n    color:var(--iomh-ink);\n    font-family:var(--iomh-sans);\n    line-height:1.6;\n    -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;\n  }\n  .iomj *{box-sizing:border-box;}\n  .iomj img{max-width:100%;}\n  .iomj a{color:var(--iomh-ember-2);}\n  .iomj h1{margin:0;text-wrap:balance;}<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj.iomj-fullbleed{\n    width:100vw;position:relative;left:50%;right:50%;\n    margin-left:-50vw;margin-right:-50vw;\n  }\n  .iomj .iomj-wrap{max-width:680px;margin:0 auto;padding-inline:24px;}<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-eyebrow{\n    font-family:var(--iomh-mono);font-size:0.7rem;letter-spacing:0.1em;\n    text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--iomh-ember-2);\n  }\n  .iomj .iomj-meta{\n    font-family:var(--iomh-mono);font-size:0.72rem;color:var(--iomh-ink-dim);\n    margin-top:8px;letter-spacing:0.02em;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-header{padding-block:56px 0;}\n  .iomj .iomj-header h1{\n    font-family:var(--iomh-serif);font-style:italic;font-weight:500;\n    letter-spacing:-0.01em;\n    font-size:clamp(2rem,5vw,2.9rem);line-height:1.08;margin:10px 0 0;\n  }\n  .iomj .iomj-lead{\n    margin-top:20px;max-width:62ch;color:var(--iomh-ink-soft);font-size:1.05rem;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-figure{\n    position:relative;margin:36px 0 0;border-radius:2px;overflow:hidden;\n    border:1px solid var(--iomh-line);background:var(--iomh-surface-2);\n    aspect-ratio:4\/3;\n  }\n  .iomj .iomj-figure img{\n    width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block;\n    filter:grayscale(0.82) sepia(0.28) saturate(1.15) brightness(1.04) contrast(1.05);\n  }\n  .iomj .iomj-figure::after{\n    content:'';position:absolute;inset:0;\n    background:var(--iomh-ember);mix-blend-mode:color;opacity:0.22;\n    pointer-events:none;\n  }\n  .iomj .iomj-credit{\n    margin-top:8px;font-family:var(--iomh-mono);font-size:0.68rem;color:var(--iomh-ink-dim);\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-body{padding-block:28px 64px;}\n  .iomj .iomj-body p{font-size:1rem;color:var(--iomh-ink-soft);max-width:66ch;margin:0 0 20px;}\n  .iomj .iomj-body p:last-child{margin-bottom:0;}\n<\/style>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"iomj iomj-fullbleed\">\n<article class=\"iomj-wrap\">\n<header class=\"iomj-header\">\n<p class=\"iomj-eyebrow\">Journal \u2014 Science<\/p>\n<h1>The Hidden Link Between Smell and Taste<\/h1>\n<p class=\"iomj-meta\">Field notes &middot; April 8, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"iomj-lead\">The tongue can tell apart exactly five things. Almost everything else we call &#8220;taste&#8221; is actually smell.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"iomj-figure\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/af\/Allegory_of_Taste%2C_by_Gerrit_van_Honthorst.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"iomj-credit\">Gerrit van Honthorst, Allegory of Taste (c. 1623\u20131624), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<div class=\"iomj-body\">\n<p>Pinch your nose shut and eat a jellybean \u2014 most people, tested this way, cannot tell a lemon one from an orange one, and sometimes cannot even tell they&#8217;re eating a jellybean at all rather than plain sugar. The tongue, on its own, is a surprisingly blunt instrument: it distinguishes only five qualities \u2014 sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami \u2014 nothing that would explain the difference between a strawberry and a raspberry.<\/p>\n<p>What we call flavor is mostly smell, arriving by the back door. As we chew, aroma molecules rise up the throat into the nasal cavity from behind, reaching the same olfactory receptors that a sniff reaches from the front \u2014 a route physiologists call retronasal olfaction, as opposed to the orthonasal kind used for ordinary smelling. It is why food turns bland and interchangeable during a bad cold: the tongue still works perfectly, but the passage behind it is blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Wine tasting makes the point almost embarrassingly well. Trained tasters describe leather, violets, wet stone, and black cherry in a glass that, chemically speaking, offers the tongue only sourness, a little sweetness, and tannin&#8217;s bitterness \u2014 everything else is retronasal smell, reconstructed by the brain into something we insist on calling taste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal \u2014 Science The Hidden Link Between Smell and Taste Field notes &middot; April 8, 2017 The tongue can tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}