Coumarin
Level 5 — High concernIn Winter's Dictionary
Coumarin is a flavoring — Fragrant ingredient of tonka beans, sweet woodruff, cramp bark
Also: Tonka Bean, Cumarin
What it does
Fragrant ingredient of tonka beans, sweet woodruff, cramp bark
Where you'll see it
Formerly in food; recurring problem in Mexican vanilla
What the research says
Toxic by ingestion and carcinogenic.
Regulatory status
- US FDA: BAN
- Notes: Prohibited in food in U.S. since 1940
Sources
- A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): Coumarin is prohibited in foods because it is toxic by ingestion and carcinogenic