Why can't we taste food properly when we have a cold?

I think it because our tongue sense isn't working properly. Our sense is covered by the liquid that make the stimulus isn't properly deliver to our brain. I just get cold yesterday and today I have recover from my cold and still can't taste properly. keep post happy myLotting...

A cold is a nasty thing and it is not just taste that suffers, it is also smell and we cannot breathe so well. One of my workers had a cold and I told him to rest. Cheers!!

At least half of our sense of taste is actually smell. Our tongue really has a quite limited range of sensations - sweet, salty, sour, bitter and hot (as in chillis or garlic). The rest of the things that make food enjoyable are sensed by the nose (or rather, in the sinuses). When we have a cold, the mucous membranes in the nose are swollen and inflamed and our sense of smell is lost, so we can only taste the very basic attributes of food.

your sense of smell has a lot to do with the receptors for taste. it seems like if you don't have both,something's "off".a stuffed up nose will pretty much make every thing taste like nothing.