That’s because, like three million other people in this country I have anosmia : I can’t taste and have no sense of smell. They told me the injury would heal in time, but I soon realised that I couldn’t taste my food or smell things. I’d lost both but retained a degree of mouth taste, the tiny percentage which doesn’t depend on smell. Until 2010, when Professor Philpott opened the NHS Smell and Taste clinic in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, help for those with anosmia was hard to come by. In fact, he thinks that 30 years after a head injury, my loss of taste and smell is probably permanent.

Source: Daily Mail May 20, 2019 22:07 UTC