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The Science Behind Why Food Tastes Bad on an Airplane
Our taste buds actually work differently in the sky than they do on the ground. The microclimate of an airplane is drier than most deserts and that has the effect of completely drying out the nose. You lose about 30% of the taste buds in the tongue when you're tasting food on a plane. And it also has these weird side effects where things like even the sound of an airplane, because it's such a large amount of background noise, changes the way certain tastes taste. So what that means in practice is the sound of the airplane bizarrely enhances the flavour of umami. There's also a 12 hour window for when a lot of these meals start getting prepared to when you're
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