11/03/2026
In this puppet short, Chef Marinara is distressed to find that her breakfast just doesn’t taste right.
Although there’s nothing wrong with her tongue’s ability to detect flavors, her flavor perception is temporarily off. That’s because people perceive flavor by combining information on their tongue’s taste buds with molecules reaching the olfactory cells in their nasal cavities. Tastes and smells are then integrated with food textures and temperatures in their brain’s gustatory cortex to give “flavor.”
This video won 1st place in the 2025 Brain Awareness Video Contest hosted by BrainFacts.org.🧠🥇