taste: the feeling that is produced by a particular food or drink when you put it in your mouth (sweet/bitter/salty etc taste) flavor : the particular taste of a food or drink . Which flavor do you want - chocolate or vanilla?

There are millions who feel that we talk of flavor only when we find some food item tasty and appealing to our senses. These five taste senses are sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami. This is how food items are classified depending upon whether they are sweet, sour, salty, and so on. Whether we accept taste being different from flavor or not, flavor, it seems is much more than these five senses • Flavor is immeasurable while taste is quantifiable into bitter, sweet, salty, sour or umami. • Taste is sensory while flavor is post sensory impression. • Taste has a physical basis, whereas flavor is subjective.

I tasted the crisps. What flavour were they ? Salt and Vinegar. flavor-American spelling flavour-English/Hiberno-English spelling

Not sure if this answers your question so I am leaving a comment. The best way I can explain is that it depends on how you use the words in a sentence for example: That coffee has good flavor. I can taste the vanilla in the coffee. hope this helps a little