If you subtract the flavour from food then it no longer seems real, it is as if you are eating the mere idea of food. And yet the flavour is the most 'subjective' quality of that food and known to be so since it varies so much according to changing conditions. This is not the paradox that it seems since flavour establishes the link between consciousness and bodily need or more simply with will. Flavour represents desire, and desire will, without which mere consciousness is thin, unreal and ghostly.