foodstuff vs food coloring

food coloring vs foodstuff

foodstuff and food coloring both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
foodstuff	Yes	No	No	No
food coloring	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, food coloring is a hyponym of foodstuff; that is, food coloring is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than foodstuff:

foodstuff: a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
food coloring: a digestible substance used to give color to food

Other hyponyms of foodstuff include starches, breadstuff, coloring, colouring, food color, food colour, food colouring, concentrate, meal, fiber, fibre, roughage, flour, frozen food, frozen foods, canned food, canned foods, canned goods, tinned goods, dehydrated food, dehydrated foods, carob, carob powder, Saint-John's-bread, tapioca, cocoa, cereal, food grain, grain, fixings, ingredient, egg, eggs, dairy product, milk, curd, concoction, intermixture, mixture, juice, perishable, spoilable, macerate.

foodstuff (noun)	food coloring (noun)
(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer	a digestible substance used to give color to food
a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food

Difference between foodstuff and food coloring

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