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Useful explanatory synthesis; individual component weights vary by stimulus and person.
The passage introduces the book's central claim for a general audience.
Everyday flavor reflects an interplay of taste, smell, touch, sight, and expectation, even though most people lack vocabulary for describing that integration.
PDF sheet 7
Flavor as integrated experience
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Capture evidence faithfully. Select one Source, record a usable locator, and preserve enough surrounding context to prevent misquotation.
Evidence
Paraphrase of PDF sheet 7: flavor integrates taste, smell, touch, sight and expectation; attention and vocabulary can make experience easier to describe.
Location and context
Introduction, PDF sheet 7, supplied 241-sheet edition. Freshly reread September 28, 2026.
Annotation
Use as the author's introductory framework, not proof of the proportions or causal contribution of every component. Located extensions: individual tasks 37–66; context 81–100; descriptive versus hedonic panels 140–145. Full synthesis and corrections are in LIT-121.