WordNet
n. a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes" [syn: coloring, colouring, food colouring, food color, food colour]
Wikipedia
Food coloring, or color additive, is any dye, pigment or substance that imparts color when it is added to food or drink. They come in many forms consisting of liquids, powders, gels, and pastes. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking. Due to its safety and general availability, food coloring is also used in a variety of non-food applications including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, home craft projects, and medical devices.
Usage examples of "food coloring".
Once children openly began grilling the Amazing Kingdom tour guides about how the animals got their name, Kingsbury ordered Pedro Luz to get some food coloring and touch the damn things up.
He climbed off the desk, careful not to drop the bottle of food coloring.
But Gobi Aloo Sag is yellow, so I put red food coloring into it before I eat it.
Louise mixes more green food coloring into a pat of butter and spreads it on the dinner roll.
It was impossible not to, what with the funny cards, and Sharon putting red food coloring in the butter so we could have a pink spread on our toast.
In the corridor on the way to intake in the Tombs Sachs had recovered the blade from the razor knife and fragments of beef bone and gray spongeto simulate skull and brain matteras well as samples of the fake blood: sugar syrup with red food coloring.
In the corridor on t] to intake in the Tombs Sachs had recovered the blade from the razor knife and fragments of beef bone and gray sponge-to simulate skull am matter-as well as samples of the fake blood: sugar syrup with red food coloring.
They'd eat mashed potatoes, regular white ones, or potatoes dyed red or blue with food coloring.
Okay, okay, what nobody knew is stomach acid makes blue food coloring turn green.
Add a few congeners, couple drops of food coloring, and you've got the finest Chivas Regal a bellboy ever sold you out of a bottle with the tax stamp broken.
The Smiley Faces were yellow with lemon-flavored food coloring, and the tiny black dots of the eyes were cheap but potent acid brewed in a lab near Atlanta.
This new awareness began (one week after he sprained his thumb shooting skunks) when he bought a hummingbird feeder from Nick Rael, filled it with boiled sugarwater and red food coloring as instructed, and attached it to a branch of the tipped-over cottonwood vivisecting his outhouse.
His hair was dyed orange and stood up in inch-high spikes on his scalp, and he had a beard streaked with red and green food coloring.
He measured exactly four scoops of sugar and two drops of red food coloring into the water for each feeder.