Flavor

Flavor or flavour (see spelling differences) is the sensory impression of food or other substance, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of taste and smell. 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 flavor perception. The flavor of the food, as such, can be altered with natural or artificial flavorants which affect these senses.

A flavorant is defined as a substance that gives another substance flavor, altering the characteristics of the solute, causing it to become sweet, sour, tangy, etc.

Of the three chemical senses, smell is the main determinant of a food item's flavor. While there are only five universally recognized basic tastessweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami (savory) – the number of food smells is unbounded. A food's flavor, therefore, can be easily altered by changing its smell while keeping its taste similar. This is exemplified in artificially flavored jellies, soft drinks, and candies, which, while made of bases with a similar taste, have dramatically different flavors due to the use of different scents or fragrances. The flavorings of commercially produced food products are typically created by flavorists.

Flavor (disambiguation)

Flavour or Flavor (US English) is the sensory impression of a food or other substance that is determined mainly by the chemical senses of taste and smell.

It may also refer to:

Science

  • Flavors (programming language), an early object-oriented extension to Lisp
  • Flavour (particle physics), a quantum number of elementary particles related to their weak interactions
  • Flavor of Linux, another term for any particular Linux distribution; by extension, "flavor" can be applied to any program or other computer code that exists in more than one current variant at the same time
  • Film and TV

  • Flavors (film), romantic comedy concerning Asian-Indian immigrants in America
  • Music

    Artists and bands

  • Flavor Flav (born 1959), former rap/hip-hop promoter and current reality television actor
  • Flavour N'abania (born 1983), Nigerian singer-songwriter
  • Albums

  • Flavours (album), 1975 album by The Guess Who
  • Flavors (album), by American R&B girl group Tiffany Affair
  • Songs

  • "Flavor", 1994 song by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion from their album Orange
  • Flavors (programming language)

    Flavors, an early object-oriented extension to Lisp developed by Howard Cannon at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the Lisp machine and its programming language Lisp Machine Lisp, was the first programming language to include mixins.Symbolics used it for its Lisp machines, and eventually developed it into New Flavors; both the original and new Flavors were message passing OO models. It was hugely influential in the development of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS).

    Implementations of Flavors are also available for Common Lisp.

    New Flavors replaced message sending with calling generic functions.

    Flavors offers :before and :after daemons with the default method combination (called :daemon).

    Flavors and CLOS features comparison

    Flavors offers a few features not found in CLOS:

  • Wrappers
  • Automatic lexical access to slots using variables within methods.
  • Internal flavor functions, macros and substs.
  • Automatically generated constructors.
  • DEFFLAVOR options: :required-methods, :abstract-flavor, :mixture.
  • Podcasts:

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    Flavors

    by: Gomez

    There was a red light coughin' up a room of blood
    And there were forecast, seven inches of snow
    And there were two tunes playing in my head at once
    Arguing guitar and drums
    There was a lover standing by her bed
    With a cigarette burning in her hand
    And there were moonbeams playing on her porcelain flesh
    A capi ero alousca
    Company cars and shoes were never meant to play the blues
    You were the only fool I ever wanted to make love to
    Even within my youth I denied, I wanted to
    You were the only fool I ever wanted to make love to
    There was a red Mayan parrot pulling chicken legs
    And there were weak spots, only she could detect
    And as I rolled over to block the last ray of sun
    In emergency all over the show
    There was a blue light, the other side of the globe
    And there were four cats stretching out their claws
    And there were two lovers separated by the telephone
    Company cars and shoes were never meant to play the blues
    You were the only fool I ever wanted to make love to
    Even within my youth I denied, I wanted to
    'Cause you were the only fool I ever wanted to make love to
    Your flavors are getting to me
    Your flavors are getting to me
    Your flavors are getting to me
    Your flavors are getting to me
    Your flavors
    Your flavors
    Your flavors




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