colorant

Borrowed from French colorant, equivalent to color +‎ -ant.

colorant (plural colorants)

1. Alternative spelling of colourant.
   • 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     And on March 21, Virginia passed a law banning colorants from school food, effective July 1, 2027.

   • 2025 April 30, Kristen Rogers, “What eliminating artificial food dyes could mean for the food system”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     That difference is “very challenging for companies, because, for example, if a company produces 10 different products that are red, they could be using one synthetic colorant,” Giusti said. “But if they want to replace the synthetic colorant with a natural alternative, they may need to use up to 10 different natural colorants.”

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colorant m (plural colorants)

1. food colouring
2. colouring in general

colorant

1. present participle of colorer

• “colorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• contrôla

colōrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of colōrō

Borrowed from French colorant.

colorant m (plural coloranți)

1. colouring, food colouring