Flavor vs. Flavoring — What's the Difference?

Flavor, or flavour, is the perceptual impression of food or other substances, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of the gustatory and olfactory system. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat, as well as temperature and texture, are also important to the overall gestalt of taste perception.

A substance, such as an extract or spice, that imparts flavor.

Distinctive taste; savor

(American spelling) Something that gives flavor, usually a food ingredient.

A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing

Present participle of flavor

A flavoring

Something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts.

Any of six types of quark (down, up, strange, charm, bottom, top), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

Something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts

Any of six types of lepton (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, tau neutrino), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

(Archaic) Aroma; fragrance.

To give flavor to.

The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.

A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.

The characteristic quality of something.

(informal) A kind or type.

(particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).

(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

To add flavoring to something.

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.

That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.

To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

(physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks

Lend flavor to;