A Palate Refined
The Avatar has exceptionally precise senses of taste and smell (as the latter enhances the former). With a faint sniff or a tentative taste, the Avatar can figure out what ingredients compose a certain concoction, and in what proportions.
She can also sniff out drugs or poisons that have been added to what she was about to wolf down, as well as detect airborne toxins by the way they make the air taste.
This Flair doesn’t tell an Avatar what an ingredient is if she isn’t already familiar with it. (She would realize that what’s making her iced tea sweet isn’t sugar, for instance, but she wouldn’t know if it was Equal or Splenda if she’d never had either artificial sweetener before.)
Instead, the Flair registers each component separately and provides an indication whether such components would be dangerous to consume. The Avatar also remembers the taste and smell of various ingredients she experiences so she can recognize and identify them if she’s exposed to them again.
