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The Science of Cooking

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Is Your Mouth a Good Detector of Illness?

Loss of taste and smell is an indicator of illness often. And in fact, not just in this case, it was cobid and flue, but it can be also of cancers. We investigated this withan some spoons. So we got people to blind taste test and see if they could guess what the material was from just the tasted. Your mouth is a very, very good detector amines. As harrald was saying, as has a very sophisticated apparatus to tell both with the intempt of flavor and the olifactory er senses and what material is made of.

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