Seasonings, also called condiments, refer to foods that are added in small amounts to other foods to improve their taste. Some seasonings are used as staple foods or main ingredients in other situations. For example, onion can also be the main vegetable ingredient such as French onion soup.

From the source, most are directly or indirectly derived from plants, and a few are animal ingredients (such as dried bonito used in miso soup in Japanese cuisine) or synthetic ingredients (such as MSG). The flavors added by seasonings are divided into sour and sweet. According to technical means, in ancient times, they were mostly natural seasonings (such as salt, soybean oil, sugar, star anise), but now people use compound seasonings (MSG, chicken essence, chicken). Powder), most of the foreign countries are pure natural seasonings extracted through high-tech