flavor enhancer

noun

Any substance added to a food product to enhance its taste, especially to make it taste more savoury or to add umami

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Meanings

nounflavor enhancer (plural flavor enhancers)

plural flavor enhancers · alternative UK flavour enhancer

  1. Any substance added to a food product to enhance its taste, especially to make it taste more savoury or to add umami

Translations

French exhausteur de goût
  • exhausteur de goûtany substance added to a food product to enhance its taste
German Geschmacksverstärker
  • Geschmacksverstärkerany substance added to a food product to enhance its taste
Polish wzmacniacz smaku
  • wzmacniacz smakuany substance added to a food product to enhance its taste
Russian усили́тель вку́са
  • усили́тель вку́са (usilítelʹ vkúsa)any substance added to a food product to enhance its taste
Swedish smakförstärkare
  • smakförstärkareany substance added to a food product to enhance its taste
Cite this entry
APA

flavor enhancer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flavor%20enhancer

MLA

“flavor enhancer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flavor%20enhancer. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flavor enhancer,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flavor%20enhancer.

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