| Isabelle tosses a quarter cup of curry into the wok and our kitchen fills with its muscular yellow pungency. |
| The pungency of wasabi, horseradish, Brussels sprouts, and mustards comes from compounds called isothiocyanates. |
| Bush tomatoes have an intense, earthy-tomato and caramel flavor of great piquancy and pungency. |
| Sweetness in onions is more accurately termed lack of pungency, or mildness. |
| Drying may bring about a desirable change in flavour, as in pepper where the pungency increases. |
| Hot peppers derive their pungency from capsaicin, a substance characterized by acrid vapours and burning taste. |
