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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

"Retronasal olfaction"

  ... smelling food after it's in the mouth

As most readers of Edible Geography will know, smell makes up to ninety percent of what we perceive as flavor, primarily through a process known as retronasal olfaction, in which odor molecules travel from the mouth to the nose via the throat as we eat.

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