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The chemistry of why your tongue cares which thing you put on it.
means The distinct tastes and aromas of food or drink, or by extension, the varieties of a thing.
from From Old French flaor, a smell or odor — back when flavor was mostly about what reached your nose, not your tongue, since most tasting is secretly smelling.
Mostly noseAround 80 percent of flavor is smell.
Five tastesSweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.
Software tooLinux distros borrowed the word for variants.