Question

What is ansomia's relationship to other senses, especially taste.

Answer 1

The complete loss of smell is called anosmia. Without the sense of smell, food tastes different. Anosmics can taste quite well - nothing missing there. But they cannot experience the flavour of foods. Smell is 10,000 times more powerful than taste, and taste is mostly (~75 %) smell. Taste and smell are very strongly interconnected. We can smell without tasting, but our taste is greatly affected if we cannot smell. Our taste sensation is overwhelmed by the smell sensation. Therefore, people experience taste without olfaction is nothing like that with olfaction. It is like viewing a rainbow in black and white.