Chicken seasoning can be used in place of green onions, and chicken seasoning can give a dish had flavor.

Seasonings, also known as condiments, are food ingredients that are used to be added in small amounts to other foods to improve the flavor. Some seasonings are used in other contexts as a main food, or as the main ingredient in a meal. For example, onions can also be the main vegetable ingredient in things like French onion soup.

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In terms of origin, most are derived directly or indirectly from plants, while a few are animal ingredients (e.g., dried woodchucks used in miso soup in Japanese cuisine) or synthetic (e.g., monosodium glutamate). The flavors added to the seasonings are sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, fresh, and numbing. The aromas added include sweet, spicy, minty, and fruity.

From the technical means to points, the ancient more natural seasonings (such as salt, soybean oil, sugar, anise), and today's Chinese more composite seasoning materials (monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, chicken powder), foreign countries are extracted through high-tech natural seasoning China's growth rate of the seasoning industry at more than 10% per year. The overall sales revenue of China's seasoning industry has grown from 38 billion yuan in 2003 to 130 billion yuan in 2007.

Domestic hotel and restaurant sales rose 23.6 percent to 368.73 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2008, according to a new analysis by China's Ministry of Commerce. Meanwhile, 168 overseas hotel and F&B projects have been invested and completed in China in the first quarter of 2008. Stores and high-class hotels were completed.

This unprecedented growth has created a very valuable opportunity for the condiment industry. 2007, the national catering industry realized retail sales of 1.22 trillion yuan. The proportion of condiments in the catering industry accounted for 10% of consumption, and condiments have become one of the fastest growing categories in China's food industry.