Flavor lexicon
to develop and detail the sensory perception experienced from food
Flavor lexicons (American English) or flavour lexicons (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) are used by professional taste testers to develop and detail the sensory perception experienced from food. The lexicon is a word bank developed by professional taste testers in order to identify an objective, nuanced and cross-cultural word bank for food.
Background
Flavor is the sensory impression of food or other substances and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of taste and smell. Flavor is said to be 80 percent aroma, detected primarily through the retronasal smell mechanism. Sight, sound, and touch also impact flavor. The color of a food, sound as one bites into it, and texture are all factors that contribute to a person's perception of food. In addition, culture provides a context to food. All these experiences put together can affect a person's description of the food item.
Flavor lexicons seek to provide an objective word bank for food. This streamlines the variations created by the different language ascribed to food.
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