Why does food taste bland when you have a cold?

What will be an ideal response?


Much of "taste" is actually smell; when you have a cold, your nose is stuffed up and you cannot smell very well because odor and taste molecules cannot reach the olfactory receptors.

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A. have a blade divided into leaflets. B. have palmate venation. C. are alternately arranged. D. have two or more petioles per blade. E. are toothed at the edges.

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