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