The Danish authorities consider two lists with several dozen botanicals used by a Danish company, all not novel.
The Danish company started in 1990, selling organic foods and prepackaged foods containing preparations of these botanicals, most of which are now marketed as food supplements.
A few examples are:
- Astragalus membranaceus Fisch. ex Bunge (roots, and its alcoholic extracts);
- Ilex pubescens Hook. & Arn. (roots)
- Lophatherum gracile Brongn. (areal parts);
- Phellodendron amurense (bark);
- Polygala tenuifolia Willd. (roots, and its alcoholic extracts);
- Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi (flowers, leaves, and roots of kudzu);
- Taraxacum mongolicum Hand.-Mazz. (whole plant);
- Sophora flavescens Aiton (roots).
Over the past few years, the Danish team responsible for novel foods has been refining this list. Slowly but steadily, the not novel food status of these botanicals will be added to the Novel Food Catalogus.