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Taste and Smell: Where Chemistry Meets Biology

   Hey! Happy New Year!! Its been a long time, isn't it. Well, the string theory blog really worked me up but I'm back and back with a banger, no less! If there is something we all love, it has to be food. We need it for our survival and its a really enjoyable part of life unless your mom made spinach, in which case, my condolences. But rather than talking about how it gets digested or made into poop, i wanna talk about the more interesting part, how you taste it and how smell helps in distinguishing flavours, so lets get into it Let's start with a basic question: How Important are these 2 senses? And to answer this, let me tell you about a case study.  Lallu was a fine 29 year old man, who was slightly above subsistence level, but one day, he met with an accident. You see, he was driving his bike when a bus driver hit him, aw 🥹. Then he had some head trauma, but he went to the hospital and got cured.  But something strange which lallu and his family no...