Abstract: A kit containing a plurality of scent/flavor samples and taste samples contained in individual vessels. Methods of teaching an understanding of taste, smelling with the nose, smelling with the mouth, and the concept of “flavor,” is facilitated. Numerous possibilities of combining scents with tastes, thus enabling a person to explore creatively and deductively the creation of new scent and flavor mixtures, as well as learning what makes familiar flavors taste the way they do.

Abstract: A drug-dispensing arrangement for dissociating side effects, particularly gastrointestinal side effects, such as nausea and/or vomiting, from oral ingestion of a medication eliminates the development of learned taste-aversion. If a large, random and unpredictable order of flavors, and preferably well-known and pleasant flavors, are experienced by a patient in conjunction with ingesting a specific medication, the ability to form an explicit association between any one flavor and the untoward side effect will not be possible. As an example, a supply of medication is provided to the patient in a blister pack containing a random distribution of uniformly colored pills of multiple, familiar flavors so that a patient is not able to learn to any association between the flavor/odor/color of a pill and any subsequent nausea or stomach upset. In this example, the pills can be distinctively flavored by application of a flavored coating, such as a pharmaceutical glaze, or an enteric or reverse enteric coating.