What's the difference between flavor and odor?

Flavor


Definition:

  • (n.) That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
  • (n.) That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
  • (v. t.) To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
  • (2) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
  • (3) The present experiments examined flavor differences among starches.
  • (4) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (5) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
  • (6) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
  • (7) Effects of taste deprivation and selective taste exposure during the suckling period on adult preference for flavored solutions was examined.
  • (8) When given a choice between two mashes of equal caloric density but differing flavors, rats (Rattus norvegicus) show a robust preference for the flavor previously associated with a higher calorie food.
  • (9) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
  • (10) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
  • (11) Similar correlation coefficients were obtained between salivary gland androst-16-ene steroid levels measured using either the complete or simplified versions of the colorimetric assay and the off-aroma and off-flavor sensory scores.
  • (12) Appropriate sweeteners, flavoring agents, preservatives, humectants, and pH adjusters were then added.
  • (13) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
  • (14) Since gustatory-visceral afferent information reaches insular cortex via 2-3 synaptic relays, autonomic, olfactory and gustatory inputs may interact at this level, and, as suggested previously for the mouse, play a key integrative role in flavor perception.
  • (15) Responding by squirrel monkeys was maintained under a 30-response fixed-ratio schedule of food presentation; during different sessions responding produced either sucrose-flavored or banana-flavored food pellets.
  • (16) Eugenol is widely used as a food flavoring agent and a dental analgesic.
  • (17) Hence, exogenous CRF is capable of inducing both flavor preference and aversion in a dose- and situation-dependent manner.
  • (18) These results suggest that the gustatory contribution to the flavor denoted by the Japanese word "umami" may be mediated, in part, by neurons that also respond to chemical described by humans as sweet.
  • (19) It is significant, and in contrast to other published research, that flavor conditioning was not disrupted when the distinctive cues paired with the drug during preexposure were absent at the time of the flavor-drug pairing.
  • (20) Two cues, either size or flavor of food pellet, were conditionally paired with either malaise induced by x-ray or pain induced by shock in four groups of rats.

Odor


Definition:

  • (n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
  • (2) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
  • (3) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (4) Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) were trained with 2 successively presented targets differing in color or odor, one of which always contained a 5-microliters drop of 50% sucrose solution and the other, a 5-microliters drop of 20% sucrose solution.
  • (5) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
  • (6) For the roof, different odorants produced different activity patterns, which had profiles not simply described as regions of maximal and minimal responsiveness.
  • (7) Hamsters with TNx retained their ability to detect odors, but demonstrated reduced attraction to vaginal odors as compared with unoperated animals.
  • (8) Chemosensory cilia of olfactory receptor neurons contain an adenylate cyclase which is stimulated by high concentrations of odorants.
  • (9) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
  • (10) The cyclic adenosine nucleotide pathway is turned off by kinase A activity, whereas the inositol trisphosphate cascade is terminated by kinase C. The data support the concept that desensitization of odorant responses involves phosphorylation of key elements in the transduction cascade.
  • (11) Like its counterparts from frog and rat, the ciliary enzyme was stimulated by guanine nucleotides, by forskolin, and by a variety of odorants in the presence of GTP.
  • (12) The level of the DA metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) increases only in pups receiving both odor and tactile stimulation and peaks at about 200% of baseline.
  • (13) In Experiment 1, an odor was presented 90 s before, during, or 90 s after a taste to independent groups.
  • (14) Examination of illustrative case reports demonstrates that the qualitative features of the Odorant Confusion Matrix offer additional insights to support etiologic diagnoses of disturbances in sense of smell.
  • (15) At 2.5 L min-1 both groups were able to track the buildup of odor intensity during infusion and its decline after infusion.
  • (16) Experiments 2 and 3 investigated whether desensitized animals could behaviorally detect and discriminate odors.
  • (17) No differences have been observed about aspect, odor, pH and volume of ejaculate.
  • (18) Determining specific ligand-receptor relationships is an extremely challenging task given the diversity of odorants able to be perceived and the potentially large size of the family of receptors.
  • (19) This review discusses the state of knowledge in odor memory within the framework of mainstream memory research.
  • (20) When heart rate is used as the index of conditioning, rat pups younger than 15 days of age do not display an odor-shock association.