The kitchen might be the best place for people to counter taste and smell loss. Using more herbs and spices, for example, can enhance flavor.

For people who are dealing with a loss of smell and taste after battling COVID-19, the side effects and impact on their life can last for months. How are doctors "fixing" the problem? It's a simple ...

Nearly 80% of adults with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection demonstrated a loss of smell up to 2 years later, according to a ...

Our sense of smell profoundly influences taste, with the brain merging olfactory and gustatory signals to create flavour.

When battling a cold, everything feels compromised—energy levels, breathing patterns, sleep quality and especially the sense of taste. That steaming bowl of chicken soup or favorite comfort food might ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

By studying how retronasal odors trigger taste-like brain activity, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have uncovered a new layer of the flavor experience.