What foods cause one of the most bizarre phenomena of the corona?
Quite a few people who have recovered from corona report a particularly strange phenomenon in which the sense of smell does not disappear but rather changes, turning things that were once pleasant into particularly smelly ones.
And it turns out that there are some foods that particularly irritate the nose
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30/05/2022
Monday, 30 May 2022, 08:50 Updated: 08:54
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Recently more and more people around us are getting infected with corona, and some are suffering from various and bizarre side effects, including strange disturbances in the sense of taste and smell.
But not the ones you think.
For these people, coffee for example smells like burning rubber, wine has the taste of gasoline, and the perfume that was once their favorite smells awful to them.
Scientists at the University of Reading in the UK believe they may have discovered why certain foods and beverages smell (and may taste) disgusting to those who experience a distorted sense of smell (known as prosemia) after a viral infection.
Prosemia is different from odor loss, because instead of not smelling at all, sufferers find that they can smell something that is not around at all.
Among the examples, people reported smelling odors, including the smell of "burnt", sulfur and fish.
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According to the team, some of the most common foods and beverages that cause prosemia include:
onion
coffee
garlic
chicken
green peppers
pungent odors like egg, mint or toothpaste are often mentioned by people suffering from prosemia
The coffee suddenly stinks.
Coffee beans (Photo: ShutterStock)
Why these particular smells?
As reported in the journal Communications Medicine, the new study identified 15 different molecular triggers for proseemia.
It seems that certain foods may be particularly rich in specific active odor molecules that are prone to odor distortions.
To arrive at these findings, the team collected people with 29 post-viral prosemia and 15 without prosemia, and asked everyone to undergo a sniffing experiment.
As one of the most common "victims" of Prussia, the researchers chose the aroma of freshly ground coffee as their main theme.
They found that one compound that produces aroma in coffee - 2-furanmethanethiol - was particularly split.
While non-prosmia people described it in pleasant terms - "coffee, roast, popcorn and smoked" - those with post-viral prosmia often perceived it as repulsive - and described it as "disgusting, repulsive and dirty".
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"This is solid evidence that not everything is 'in the head', and that the feeling of disgust can be related to compounds in foods. The central nervous system is certainly also involved in interpreting the signals it receives from the nose. To
that end, "said Dr. Jane Parker, director of the University of Reading's Taste Center.
" Now we can see that certain aroma compounds found in foods have this particular effect.
"We hope it will be reassuring for those with prosemia to know that their experience is 'real', that we can identify other foods that may also be triggers, and moreover, offer 'safe' foods that are less likely to cause the problem."
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