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Small, evaporative molecules emanating from foods in our mouth while chewing that travel from the oral cavity through the nasopharynx subsequently stimulating receptors on the nose’s olfactory epithelium. Retronasal odors refer to objects inside the body and are thus principally related to foods only present during consumption (Boesvelt, 2017).
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The Center for Nutritional Psychology. (2024). Retronasal Odor. In Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
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