WUR gets EU approval for ‘water lentils’

Two types of duckweed get "novel food" approval from the EU's food safety agency.

Wageningen University & Research has received approval from the European Food Safety Agency for the human consumption of two types of what WUR calls “water lentils,” also called duckweed or lemna.

The two types of duckweed that have recently been approved — Lemna minor and Lemna gibba — spent four years winding their way through the EU’s Novel…