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food coloring

food coloring is the US standard spelling of food colouring.

Meaning of food colouring

Noun

food colouring (countable and uncountable, plural food colourings)

  1. Any substance added to food in order to change its colour.
    • Add a few drops of blue food colouring to the icing.

Forms of food coloring

pluralfood colorings

Questions about food coloring

What is food coloring the US standard spelling of?
Food coloring is the US standard spelling of food colouring.

Words near food coloring in the dictionary

  1. food carts
  2. food chain
  3. food chains
  4. food closet
  5. food closets
  6. food coloring
  7. food colorings
  8. food colouring
  9. food colourings
  10. food coma
  11. food comas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: food coloring (page history and authors); food colouring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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