A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that the brain’s taste cortex responds not only to flavors on the tongue but also to aromas that reach the nose while eating, known as retronasal ...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Many people who have COVID-19 experience a loss of taste and smell. For most people, it lasts about two to three weeks. But between 5% and 7% of the millions of people in the U.S.

We’ve all heard that some people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell. But there are lots of reasons why that can happen. It turns out that many viruses can temporarily diminish your sense of smell ...

John T. reads this column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and writes about his experience with COVID-19: “I had minimal symptoms with the exception of my loss of taste and smell. I am a little ...

Jennifer Henderson, who had a distorted sense of taste and smell for two years after contracting COVID, can finally enjoy food again Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of ...

When battling a cold, everything feels compromised—energy levels, breathing patterns, sleep quality and especially the sense of taste. That steaming bowl of chicken soup or favorite comfort food might ...