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The loss of a person s sense of smell and taste has been a well-documented symptom of COVID-19. But only a few people talk about how it alters the way your food tastes like cardboard or paper.
COVID-19 patients reported that there were major changes in how they tasted food. Notably, many of them tasted their food as if they re eating cardboard and paper, Best Life reported. Everything that had really strong flavors, I couldn t taste, 23-year-old Horcel Kamaha told BBC in March.
He couldn t taste any of the food he ate properly for months. Everything tasted like paper or cardboard, he added.