Chemosensory Disorders: Emerging Roles in Food Selection, Nutrient Inadequacies, and Digestive Dysfunction

Since the experience of prandial consumption engages multisensory integration, including smells, tastes, somatosensation, and viscosity, it cannot truly be isolated. This is illustrated in the paradigm of gustatory synesthesia of retronasal smell (Small 2009). For purposes of organization in this chapter, however, sensations of smell and taste will be segregated and individually delineated.