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