The kitchen might be the best place for people to counter taste and smell loss. Using more herbs and spices, for example, can enhance flavor.

Using a scratch-and-sniff test, researchers discovered that smell loss after COVID-19 may linger for more than two years.

By studying how retronasal odors trigger taste-like brain activity, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have uncovered a new layer of the flavor experience.

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...