New Nordic Food has within the last decade received much media coverage with chefs of top restaurants using wild plants for foods. As part of a control campaign, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration visited 150 restaurants and local food producers from May-October 2016 and investigated their use of plants picked from the wild, cultivated in private gardens or market gardens. Among the species used were the flowers from 23 plants. Here we present a safety evaluation of these flowers based on published phytochemical investigations and toxicological data in humans, farm animals, pets, or experimental animals. Of the 23 flowers reviewed, nine contained compounds with toxic or potentially toxic effects if eaten, two contained unidentified toxic compound(s), and four were flowers from plants with potentially toxic compounds present in other plant parts or related species. Many of the flowers may be considered novel, since a use to a significant degree in Europe prior to 15 May 1997 before Regulation (EC) 258/97 on novel food and novel food ingredients came into force could not be established. In conclusion, this review illuminates a striking lack of chemical and toxicological data of many of the proposed wild or cultivated flowers for food use.

在过去的十年中，New Nordic Food受到许多使用野生植物作为食物的顶级饭店的厨师的媒体报道。作为控制运动的一部分，丹麦兽医和食品管理局从2016年5月至10月访问了150家餐馆和当地食品生产商，并调查了他们对从野外采摘的，在私家花园或市场花园中种植的植物的使用情况。在使用的物种中，有23种植物的花朵。在这里，我们根据人类，农场动物，宠物或实验动物中已发表的植物化学调查结果和毒理学数据，对这些花进行安全性评估。在所审查的23朵花中，有9朵被食用具有毒性或潜在毒性作用的化合物，其中两朵含有未鉴定的有毒化合物，其中四朵来自植物的花朵，在其他植物部位或相关物种中存在潜在的有毒化合物。许多花可能被认为是新花，因为在欧洲无法确定在1997年5月15日之前在关于新颖食品和新颖食品成分的法规（EC）258/97生效之前的大量使用。总之，本综述阐明了许多拟议用于食品的野生或栽培花卉的化学和毒理学数据十分缺乏。