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9 Expert Tips on Eating With a Loss of Taste and Smell – LIVESTRONG.COM
Eating without a sense of taste or smell can make it difficult to get the nutrition you need. Try these strategies from dietitians to make food more appealing.
Eating without tasting is doable, if not delightful. But it’s not just taste that makes food appealing: Smell plays a major role as well. After all, for so many tantalizing foods think: buttered popcorn, brewing coffee, bacon on the grill scent is a big part of the draw.
So it’s understandable that when these senses are impaired, eating isn’t as interesting.
“As a result, we might not get the nutrients we need,” Heather Wolfe, MPH, RDN, LD, a dietitian at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in New Hampshire, tells…
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