food color
Culinary tinting agent
Food color is a dye or pigment added to food or drink to alter its appearance.
Also called food coloring.
Most food colors are synthetic, though natural alternatives exist.
The plural food colors refers to multiple dyes: The cake decorator kept dozens of food colors in her kit.
- tartrazineSynthetic yellow food additive
- turmericYellow rhizome spice
- beetrootEdible crimson root vegetable
- hibiscusTropical flowering shrub
- spirulinaEdible blue-green microalgae
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food colorpaint
Colored coating substance
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