flavor

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

The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.

Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.

Flavor was added to the pudding.

A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).

What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?

My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.

The characteristic quality of something.

the flavor of an experience

I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.

A kind or type.

Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

To add flavoring to something.