Here’s what to know about how COVID-19 can cause you to lose your senses of taste and smell, how it can affect your life, and how to get these senses back. Losing your ability to taste and smell ...

Our sense of smell and taste has played a vital role in human evolution. To this day, we rely on these two senses to help us identify proper foods to eat and recognize potential dangers like fires or ...

If you’re among the 19% of Americans who report changes in their sense of taste as they get older, it might be some cause for alarm. New research suggests that losing your sense of taste ...

Roughly one in four people who were sick with COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic have yet to regain their sense of smell or taste. That’s the startling finding of a new study ...

Some studies estimate that about 53% of older adults have impaired taste. The temporary interruption of smell you experience during a cold or other respiratory illness can impair your sense of taste.

About three quarters of those affected by loss of taste or smell regained those senses within 30 days. Rates of recovery improved over time, but about 5% of people reported “persistent ...

Your taste buds pick up on flavors, including four basic ones: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. At the same time, your sense of smell lets you enjoy the food’s aromas. When something goes wrong ...

While there is little doubt about the effect of COVID-19 on the sense of smell, its impact on taste perception remains less widely acknowledged. “Our aim was to empower people worldwide by using ...

Good taste recognizes the difference between what is edgy and what is offensive, between what is novel and what is merely ...

Boak founded Fifth Sense, a UK charity for people affected by smell and taste disorders that's part of the Global Consortium on Chemosensory Research exploring links between COVID-19 and olfactory ...

While our sense of smell and taste are often associated with one another — for example, when you have a stuffy nose, foods don’t always taste as good — this study found that an increased ...