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

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

It is frequently quoted that upwards of 80% of our taste is made up by smell. So if you plug your nose and cover your eyes, the taste between an apple and onion should be indistinguishable. All potato chip flavors taste the same.

What do an onion, a potato and an apple all have in common? ... It's quite strange, but onions, potatoes and apples all have the same taste. The differences in flavour that we experience are caused only by their smell

I eat raw onions like apples. You should too. ... Sure onions taste great but they also feel great. It almost stings but it is more of a tingle when you bite in to raw onions.

Onions are commonly used in a number of meals, both cooked and raw. But you may have noticed they not only bring tears to yours eyes but can also leave a bitter taste in your mouth. ... Several sulfur-based compounds are also formed when the onion is chopped, but none of these caused a bitter taste.