So these are things that are not unpleasant but that have a strong kind of vegetative taste I suppose you could say. So bitter, bitter. So in an example sentence. Many people enjoy drinking very bitter beers these days.
The pepper steadily spread to other rural regions of China, but its pungent, overpowering flavour barred it from getting near the tables of imperial or upper-class families.
You may have heard of tannins, for example—those are phenolics that don't have strong flavors themselves, but cause that drying feeling in your mouth after you drink a bold red.
Mr. Wilson says cricket flour does not have a strong taste. Maybe, he says, it tastes a little like nuts. Two people who attended the Oregon food conference were willing to try cricket flour on breakfast cereal.
When distillation started to become more widespread, when the technique of producing spirits, stronger alcohol, reached Europe, clearly there was an even greater need to disguise the taste of this stronger alcohol.
The pumpkin spice flavor pack accounts for those changes, using synthetic compounds that highlight the strongest notes of pumpkin spice flavors -- once the pie’s out of the oven, that is.