Taste is an essential sense: it characterizes us, defines us. But what happens when you lose it? The experience can be very disturbing for people who suffer from it and prove to be a real handicap. Personalities and anonymous witnesses.
Ivan LEVAI lost his taste in a restaurant. He explains that he first lost his sense of smell. Professor Pierre BONFILS explains the mechanisms of taste very related to smell. The taste results from an oral part and from the perception of odors by retro-olfaction, in other words by the perception of odors by smell.
In the retirement home of Mérignac is the time of the meal, the opportunity for the elderly to eat with pleasure. This is explained by the cook who works with fresh produce and takes care of the presentation. He explains to the audience what he does, such as sweet and savory.
Old people lose taste. As Dr.Stéphane LACHER FOUGERE explains, with age, less nerve cells are produced, so the sense of smell decreases and less chemical transmitters are produced to communicate between the sensation and the brain, which explains why sensations decrease with age.
Children discover the flavours and scents in an educational farm. According to Dr.Stéphane LACHER FOUGERE taste is a sense that depends on the tongue for 20% of the taste and the nose for 80% of what one feels by the taste. There are four flavours: sweet, salty, bitter and acid.