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The answer to this puzzle is a single word.

A bunch of macarons

ffao
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Mariia Mykhailova
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  • I object, it can't be a rainbow if there are only 6 colors! – ffao Sep 07 '18 at 17:55
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    Assuming M Oehm's answer is correct, this is a beautiful puzzle. – Lord Farquaad Sep 07 '18 at 19:46
  • @LordFarquaad It is correct indeed, and thank you :-) – Mariia Mykhailova Sep 07 '18 at 20:55
  • Would the rebus tag also fit here or not? Besides, I already looked at @MOehm 's accepted answer, and I must say this puzzle was much more clever than I had anticipated! Really well done! DVL2 $\color{darkorange}{\bigstar}$ :D – Mr Pie Sep 07 '18 at 21:25
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    I removed the rebus tag because the answer (which I already knew from somewhere else) didn't look like what I commonly think is a rebus, though rebuses are really hard to define. Maybe ask on meta if you think rebus is a good fit here so we don't end up in an edit war. – ffao Sep 07 '18 at 21:35

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The answer is ...

... salted, one of the basic flavours.

Each of the six pictures ...

... has three pieces of information: The colour, number and flavour of the macarons. The colour determines the order of the images (although for aesthetic reasons, they are already in order), the number determines which letter to take from the flavour:

S red 3 raspberry
A orange 3 oranges
L yellow 1 lemon
T green 4 pistacchio
E blue 6 blueberry
D violet 6 lavender

M Oehm
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is it

skittles! taste the rainbow!

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