There's the nagging question I have had for years, which is part urban myth, part retold layman's scientifics, but the thing is: has anyone here heard, or done, the experiment of eating an apple or an onion with your nose plugged?
There's this sort of chemical or enzyme that is said to be in both edible natural byproducts (as well as potatoes, they say) and if eaten by a person devoid of their sense of smell, they would taste exactly alike. I've tried it, to no avail, if only becuase I don't believe I can entirely shut off my working sense of smell, therefore, I would know which fruit or veggie I'm eating; so is there a trick to it? Do I have to plug my nose for, say 10, minutes, before the remants of taste/smell correlation are significantly dimished enough to embark on said experiment? Does it what matter what type of these fruits/vegetables I pick out?
If this even gets two replies, I think we should try this out with the following:
1 red apple
1 red onion
1 red potato
4 earplugs and/or giant cottonballs, carefully wedged up into thine nose
wait ten minutes
eat
optional: blindfold
Here's a quick reference point for any to indulge in:
apple onion taste same