雜阿含13經

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us. If the hunter has a taste for mud-turtles, muskrats, and other such savage tidbits, the fine lady indulges a taste for jelly made of a calf's foot, or for sardines from over the sea, and they are even. He goes to the mill-pond, she to her preserve-pot. The wonder is how they, how you and I, can live this slimy, beastly life, eating and drinking.


<雜阿含13經>有：

若眾生於色不味者，則不染於色；以眾生於色味故，則有染著。


菩提比丘長老根據南傳相對經文的英譯為：

if there was no gratification in form, beings would not become enamoured with it; but because there is gratification in form, beings become enamoured with it.

愛味(gratification)是會令人回味黏著、還想再要的滿足。就是因為眾生對於五蘊會有滿足感，所以才有染著。《瑜伽師地論》解釋：觀察諸行為緣，生樂生喜，是名於彼愛味。

梭羅在此則用了其他的字眼。愛味是為 sensual savors；染著為 devotion。他說，敗壞人的不是入嘴之物，而是吃東西的食欲；如果只是為了吃而吃，那就只是在餵養我們體內的貪吃蟲。出家人也會跟國會議員一樣喜歡吃麻油腰子。梭羅認為，對美食趨之若騖的時尚名流、嫺嫺淑女與喜歡嚼檳榔、吃狗肉的人是完全相等的。嚼檳榔的人有時還是為了提神，而淑女們只是為了吃。