Actually much of what we experience as taste is really smell. We're only have taste bud receptors for sweet-savory-sour-salty and bitter but we experience much more to taste than that and that's because of smelling the food in our mouth. I had serious swallowing problems and for a year after rad couldn't swallow much of anything--but I LOVED to smell stuff. My husband complained sometimes that I'd practically put my nose in his plate. If I was hungry it would make me more hungry though so I had to be either full of Jevity or about to have some.

I agree my sense of smell never went away. Everything tasteed bad in the 3rd week and by the 4th week I was getting most of my calories through the tube.

Nelie