Our Changing Taste
How our sense of taste develops throughout our lifetimes and what happens when we lose it.
The Food Programme · BBC Radio 4
March 18, 201327m 57s
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Show Notes
Sheila Dillon looks at how our sense of taste develops throughout our lifetimes, and what happens when we lose it, through old age, illness or injury. Two hundred thousand people a year seek medical help over loss of taste, Sheila hears the story of Marlena Spieler, a food writer who lost her sense of taste following a road accident.