Flavor vs. Relish — What's the Difference?

Flavor, or flavour, is the perceptual impression of food or other substances, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of the gustatory and olfactory system. 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 taste perception.

A relish is a cooked and pickled product made of chopped vegetables, fruits, pickles or herbs and is a food item typically used as a condiment or as a salsa to enhance a staple. Examples are chutneys and the North American relish, a pickled cucumber jam eaten with hot dogs or hamburgers.

Distinctive taste; savor

Hearty enjoyment or appreciation

A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing

Something that lends pleasure or zest

A flavoring

A keen liking for something

Any of six types of quark (down, up, strange, charm, bottom, top), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

A spicy or savory condiment or appetizer, such as chutney or olives.

Any of six types of lepton (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, tau neutrino), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

A condiment of chopped sweet pickles.

(Archaic) Aroma; fragrance.

The flavor of a food, especially when appetizing.

To give flavor to.

A trace or suggestion of a pleasurable quality.

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

To take keen pleasure in; enjoy fully

A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.

To be pleased with or look forward to

A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.

(Archaic) To give spice or flavor to.

The characteristic quality of something.

(Archaic) To have a pleasing or distinctive taste.

(informal) A kind or type.

A pleasant taste.

(particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).

Enjoyment; pleasure.

(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

A quality or characteristic tinge.

To add flavoring to something.

(followed by "for") A taste (for); liking (of); fondness.

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.

That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

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.

Something that is greatly liked or savoured.

That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.

(transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of

To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

(transitive) To take great pleasure in.

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

(transitive) To give a taste to; to cause to taste nice, to make appetizing.

(physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks

To give pleasure.

Lend flavor to;

To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.

To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.

To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.

A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.

A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.

That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.

The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

Spicy or savory condiment

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in;