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Why do apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged

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Apples, potatoes and onions will all taste the same if somehow you were to block your sense of smell (plug your nose).

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When bit into without the onion's outermost skin, apples and onions share an extremely similar crunch. ... The flavors of the apple neutralize the onions pungency. So there you have it, if you plug your nose, close your eyes and bite into an onion...it is indistinguishable from an apple... until your nostrils open again.

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