Seasoning has varieties of savory seasoning, sweet seasoning, sour seasoning, spicy seasoning, fresh seasoning and so on.

Savory seasoning: savory has been listed as one of the five flavors since ancient times. Culinary applications in the salty flavor is the main flavor, is the majority of complex flavors of the base flavor, the Lord of all flavors, not only general dishes can not be separated from the salty flavor, that is, sugar and vinegar flavor, hot and sour, and so on, also want to add an appropriate amount of salty flavor in order to make its taste rich and palatable. Humans know and use the history of salty to quite a long time, the earliest documented use of salt in China about 5,000 years ago in the period of the Yellow Emperor. Salty seasonings include: soy sauce, salt, and sweet sauce.

Sweet seasoning: sweetness is known as sweet, one of the five flavors. Sweet in cooking can be used alone to modulate sweet food; can also be involved in the modulation of a variety of complex flavors, so that the food is sweet and tasty, but also can be used to correct the taste, to remove the bitter to fishy, etc., and has a certain effect of greasiness. Sweet seasonings include: honey, sugar, caramel.

Sour seasoning: sour flavor for one of the five flavors, cooking in a very wide range of applications, but generally should not be used alone. Sour astringent astringent effect, can help digestion; can also go fishy, ungreasy, taste freshness, fragrance and color, appetizing, appetite, especially suitable for spring consumption. Sour seasonings include: vinegar, ketchup.

Spicy seasoning: Spicy is actually a tactile pain rather than a taste. However, because of habit, it is also treated as a flavor. Its function is to stimulate flavor tension and increase appetite. Spicy seasonings include: pepper, chili, ginger, onion, and garlic.

Fresh Seasoning: Fresh flavor is a kind of deliciousness that people try to pursue in their diets, and it can make people feel a comfortable and pleasant feeling. Fresh flavor mainly from amino acids, nucleotides and succinic acid, mostly in meat, livestock, fish, eggs and other main ingredients. Foods such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), shrimp roe, fish sauce, oyster sauce, and fresh bamboo shoots can also enhance freshness. Fresh flavor can not exist alone, only with other flavors with the use of the clouds can be baked to support the moon and shine, so there is "no salt is not fresh, no sweet is not fresh," said. Fresh flavor seasonings include: fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, oyster sauce.