The smell of food can be quite appetizing. While certain smells may turn off people others seem to make you hungry. But have you ever wondered how you can identify foods with just their smell? Well a new study has found the exact reason for that. The study revealed how people recognize foodstuffs like strawberries coffee or barbecued meat by just with its aroma. Foodstuffs contain more than 10000 different volatile substances. But only around 230 of these determine the odor of the food we eat and between just 3 and 40 of these key odors are responsible for encoding
