There are soooo many different things that can spice up any dish. My personal favorite is garlic. I think that garlic, fresh, powder, salt, any form, adds a certain punch to any dish.
A popular one for my meats however, is not only garlic, but also Montreal seasoning salt. As well as Lowry's seasoning salt. Usually for my meats I will put both Montreal and Lowry's, as well as some fresh garlic, salt and pepper and onion powder.
If you are worried about over-salting your dish, or you body can't take it, I would suggest soaking you meat in a saltwater solution for a few hours before cooking it.
Salt and pepper is an easy fix to any boring dish. Also I would suggest some onion powder, along with garlic, this is a win-win combination.
Most prepackaged foods have flavorings added. Check the packaging label to be sure.
It ruins the texture of the food, the texture is modified, too much added can cause bad tastes.
If you mean by foreign foods, its because flavours in their quisine are very different to flavours in ours. They have tradionally better access to spices. flavourings ect. British/American food isn't particually spicy.
buttox
Because of flavourings and food colouring :)
Yes, it is an homogeneous mixture of water, alcohol and flavourings.
Acetol
The same elements as eating non-organic foods, less the pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, artificial colourings and flavourings and all the other chemicals used to make food appear visually attractive. Some studies have shown that organic foods are more nutritious. They are certainly better for you, better for the environment and, if they are animal foods, better for the animals. And, given that physics has shown that all matter is energy, organic foods surely have better energy than conventional produce.
Herbs, spices, and artificial flavourings. Some foods marked "enriched" have vitamins added to them. For instance, white flour that lost vitamins in the milling process (which removes the vitamin-rich outer bran) may be "enriched" by putting the B vitamins back into the product. Milk is often enriched with vitamin D to prevent deficiencies that can result in disease.
Water. With different added flavourings depending on the drink.
Claire F. King has written: 'Flavourings'
Mostly boiled sugar, glucose, mint flavourings and colourings.
Ice cream does not come from a bean. It is a dairy product flavoured with added types of flavourings. Although, these flavourings such as vanilla and chocolate come from beans - vanilla is derived from vanilla beans while chocolate comes from the cocoa bean (also known as cacao beans). There are many different types of flavourings of ice cream that come from beans, including coffee beans.