The Food Programme

Our Changing Taste

Mar 18, 2013 · 27 min · 26.8 MB
0:00-27:57

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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.