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Beverage-Only Ingredients in United States Law

Beverage-Only Ingredients in US Law

 

Some ingredients are only allowed in beverages, or only allowed in alcoholic beverages and/or flavoring extracts and not in food in the United States, according to the FDA [link]. Many of these are ingredients are found in bitter liqueurs.

 

Allowed in Beverages Only:

  • Cinchona, red, bark
  • Yarrow

Allowed in Alcoholic Beverages Only:

  • Angola weed
  • Arnica flowers
  • Artichoke leaves
  • Boldus (boldo) leaves
  • Bryonia root
  • Buckbean leaves
  • Calumba root
  • Centuary
  • Chirata
  • Cork, Oak
  • Costmary
  • Dittany (fraxinella) roots
  • Elder tree leaves
  • Elecampane rhizome and roots
  • Galanga, greater
  • Gentian, stemless
  • Germander, chamaedrys
  • Germander, golden
  • Iceland moss
  • Iva
  • Lemon-verbena
  • Linden leaves
  • Maidenhair fern
  • Mullein flowers
  • Myrtle leaves
  • Oak, English, wood
  • Pansy
  • Peach Leaves
  • Pine, white, bark
  • Poplar buds
  • Red saunders (red sandalwood)
  • Rhubarb, garden root
  • Roselle, Rosin (colophony)
  • St. Johnswort leaves, flowers, and caulis
  • Sandarac
  • Serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot)
  • Simaruba bark
  • Tansy
  • Thistle, blessed (holy thistle)
  • Veronica
  • Vervain, European
  • Vetiver
  • Woodruff, Sweet

 

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