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Your taste buds have nothing to do with your ability to taste your liquid other than sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. It's your nose, more accurately, your nasal passage where your olfactory nerves sense smells which our brains translate to "taste". These nerves can get fatigued detecting the same molecules over a short period of time. hence, your liquids seem muted or even disappear in flavor.
To reset your olfactory sensory nerves, you need a very strong smell like coffee. Open a can of grounds and inhale deeply several times. Other strong smells might work but coffee has been the defacto "smell resetter" for hundreds of years by perfumers, tobacists, brew masters, wine makers etc; any profession where smell is the primary sense for quality etc.
So please please please, STOP saying "taste buds", they have NOTHING to do with it. Brushing your teeth, gargling, rinsing, also does nothing since you are cleansing the wrong part of your head, in the wrong manner.
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Your taste buds have nothing to do with your ability to taste your liquid other than sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. It's your nose, more accurately, your nasal passage where your olfactory nerves sense smells which our brains translate to "taste". These nerves can get fatigued detecting the same molecules over a short period of time. hence, your liquids seem muted or even disappear in flavor.
To reset your olfactory sensory nerves, you need a very strong smell like coffee. Open a can of grounds and inhale deeply several times. Other strong smells might work but coffee has been the defacto "smell resetter" for hundreds of years by perfumers, tobacists, brew masters, wine makers etc; any profession where smell is the primary sense for quality etc.
So please please please, STOP saying "taste buds", they have NOTHING to do with it. Brushing your teeth, gargling, rinsing, also does nothing since you are cleansing the wrong part of your head, in the wrong manner.
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That explains something I've observed, but just put off to happenstance ... when I grind my beans for my brew, I always spend a moment inhaling the aroma—I LOVE the smell of freshly-ground coffee!—and afterwards, just for a brief time, I notice other smells. As I say, up 'til now I've just passed it off as a curiosity, but reading your explanation makes sense now ... I've always known about the contribution of smell to taste, but I'd never heard of the coffee trick before. Thanks for the tidbit!
I wonder if a strong coffee flavored vape would do the same thing to wake up your "smell buds"?
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@Kahuna - your 1/2 correct, yes smell helps your brain add to the taste of something to give it distinction.
But I know when I vape Ecto plasma I certainly get a bitter taste on the sides of my tongue. Same with grape or bubblegum, can absolutely taste a sweetness on the tip of my tongue. With crispy bacon flavor I get a savory flavor at the back of my tongue. I'm not disagreeing but taste buds are certainly important with vaping.
But I know when I vape Ecto plasma I certainly get a bitter taste on the sides of my tongue. Same with grape or bubblegum, can absolutely taste a sweetness on the tip of my tongue. With crispy bacon flavor I get a savory flavor at the back of my tongue. I'm not disagreeing but taste buds are certainly important with vaping.
The olfactory plays some part but the taste buds are the main taste receptors. Taste buds are not only on the tongue, there are also some on the roof of the mouth and the back of the throat. The scent of food enhances our perception of taste. No doubt about it. But, people who have total loss of the olfactory sense still have the sense of taste.
I'm going on 5 days without an analog and my sense of smell has been next to nothing for 30 years with the exception of the 6 months I manged to quit cigarettes before falling off the wagon. Today I noticed that Im starting to get random smells back for brief intervals of time.It hasnt always been a pleasant experience but Im looking at it as my body begiinng the process of healing itself.
This is one of the reasons they say dont throw your old juices out, as your senses of taste and smell return those juices that were muted when you first quit could end up being your daily vape 6 months down the road.
As far as what to do when your taste buds fail? Just keep plugging along, they will return and be stronger than ever before.
This is one of the reasons they say dont throw your old juices out, as your senses of taste and smell return those juices that were muted when you first quit could end up being your daily vape 6 months down the road.
As far as what to do when your taste buds fail? Just keep plugging along, they will return and be stronger than ever before.
Vape UNFLAVORED juice with your level nic in it. It's very refreshing, actually, and you will not be assaulting your tastebuds with "flavorings", which in and of themselves can be the culprit sometimes.
Vaping unflavored juice is a great palate cleaner in general.
I usually fill up the tanks I'm going to use for the day before leaving for work in the morning. This morning, I couldn't taste a .......n thing. I couldn't tell green tea from cherry blossom tea which indeed has the strong smell of cherry blossom flowers. Usually I can just smell tank and know what it is, if that doesnt work I take a quick rip off it. I guess my senses were just off today, nothing worked.
uh, I stated the 5 tastes you just explained in the first sentence of my post. You sense the loss of "flavors" as the majority of your liquids after a period of time; olfactory fatigue. Your taste buds sense only 5 "tastes", everything else is your olfactory receptor. I never said taste buds weren't important, just pointing out the misconception MANY people have that when their liquid's "FLAVOR" becomes muted, they say taste buds are to blame. This is a common mistake, I am pointing out and correcting people, it's not their taste buds but their olfactory receptors have acclimated to that flavor. So I am fully correct. cheers.
very true but of the 2-8 thousand tastebuds you have and use, the majority are on your tongue. The other papillae are more spread out and DISAPPEAR as we get older. As a child you had tons more (especially if you are female) but as we get older, the papillae on the roof and sides of mouth go away. the ones in our throat lose efficacy but he ones on our tongue remain. So depending on your age (and sex), you don't have any tastes buds in areas other than your tongue.
And people who have loss of olfactory sense (Anosmia and to a lesser extent Hyposmia) can sense the 5 "tastes" but not "flavor"; since Anosmia is associated to severe nasal inflamation or some sort of brain damage. We "remember" flavors, associating smells and flavors recalled from previous experiences. The taste bud on the tongue is a direct chemical receptor, no memories are involved, infact it's more instinctual. So yes, they have a sense of taste but can't sense flavor. So I don't know why you needed to included that fact unless you are confusing "taste" with " flavor/smell" which, although closely associated, use two different distinct receptors and processes and use different parts of the brain.
Now I want some Tequilla e-liquid.
When vaping the same flavor all day, I reach some point where I'm not hydrated enough, and the taste fades to the point where I seem to be only tasting the nicotine (24mg). Usually I switch to a different flavor, until I find one I *can* taste (which for me is usually 'menthol 36mg'). I've tried the 'salt' and 'lime' things...some times works, some times doesn't. My 'menthol' is strong enough in flavor that I can't taste much of anything after it anyway, and strong enough in nic to slow down my vaping.
I lick a toad, the more vibrantly coloured the better.
To be honest it's not something I worry about too much (losing taste not toad licking) because it all tastes better than smoking. I once found some juice in a draw during a lean period that I must have bought a couple of years ago when I first tried vaping, and it was labelled "Camel", I thought it must have been Camel cigarette flavour, but after trying it I was more inclined to think it was actually Camel the animal flavoured, but I still used it all up.
Having a nice tasting juice is great, but even nasty tasting or blank tasting is better than smoking.
To be honest it's not something I worry about too much (losing taste not toad licking) because it all tastes better than smoking. I once found some juice in a draw during a lean period that I must have bought a couple of years ago when I first tried vaping, and it was labelled "Camel", I thought it must have been Camel cigarette flavour, but after trying it I was more inclined to think it was actually Camel the animal flavoured, but I still used it all up.
Having a nice tasting juice is great, but even nasty tasting or blank tasting is better than smoking.
It is available at many grocery stores in the U.S.
Google found Dr Pepper Snapple Group - ReaLemon for me. The image on that page is the larger size container. The product is lime juice, from concentrate.
Yes most of the things already said (except for licking a brightly colored toad 
) work for me such as drinking and/or sniffing coffee, brushing with baking soda/and or gargling with salt water, coke, ginger ale, lemon or lime juice. (I chain vape often and it helps to drinks LOTS of water.) An occasional alcoholic beverage effects tastebuds too
When all those tricks fail, it's usually because I realize I'm having sinus issues and a stuffy nose, so I take a half tablet of sudafed to open up LOL.
) work for me such as drinking and/or sniffing coffee, brushing with baking soda/and or gargling with salt water, coke, ginger ale, lemon or lime juice. (I chain vape often and it helps to drinks LOTS of water.) An occasional alcoholic beverage effects tastebuds too When all those tricks fail, it's usually because I realize I'm having sinus issues and a stuffy nose, so I take a half tablet of sudafed to open up LOL.
I definitely have days when even my *favorite* juice just ....... tastes kinda bland. Then I think gee, maybe I need to find a new vape. Which just causes me to spend $$. A week later my favorite vape is just fine again.
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