{"id":153218,"date":"2024-03-08T19:32:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T08:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=153218"},"modified":"2024-03-08T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T08:32:40","slug":"can-trick-brain-using-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/can-trick-brain-using-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you trick your brain using smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrjQo20qi-0?si=jfUA8sfhmZwjWnw4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flavor is a multisensory affair.  Your taste buds detect five primary tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. But the real star of the show is our nose.<br \/>\nClose your eyes and inhale. Ah, the aroma! It wafts from your steaming coffee, your sizzling bacon, or that freshly baked bread. But why does it matter?  The aroma turning those 5 basic tastes into millions of distinct flavours.  Many people, who lost their smell when they had covid, discovered how bland food really is without smell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-550x550.webp\" alt=\"sense of smell effect flavor\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-153223\" data-wp-pid=\"153223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-550x550.webp 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-100x100.webp 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1-1200x1200-cropped.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_1.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So with that in mind, what if we change the smell?  Can we trick our brain into thinking we are eating something else?  Taken to the extreme could you eat something you didn&#8217;t, like while smelling chocolate and over ride the flavour?  Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-550x550.webp\" alt=\"how smell effects flavour\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-153222\" data-wp-pid=\"153222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-550x550.webp 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-100x100.webp 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0_2.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/can-trick-brain-using-smell\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/smell-150x150.png\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"how does smell effect taste\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/smell-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/smell-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/smell-1200x1200-cropped.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/smell-400x400.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"153221\" \/><\/a><p>Flavor is a multisensory affair. Your taste buds detect five primary tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. But the real star of the show is our nose. Close your eyes and inhale. Ah, the aroma! It wafts from your steaming coffee, your sizzling bacon, or that freshly baked bread. But why does it matter? The aroma turning those 5 basic tastes into millions of distinct flavours. Many people, who lost their smell when they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153225,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153218\/revisions\/153225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}