Context: Cheese Award Controversy. Cheese Professor: "In the US food-selling world, there is a term called Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS). For our store, and most natural foods stores, buyers won't buy foods with ingredients that are not GRAS I looked at the Climax Blue ingredient list and there was something I didn't recognize: kokum butter. I looked it up and, while approved for cosmetics and for one specific confection, it was not on the GRAS list. So we rejected it." Elsewhere: Reddit, Plant based News, AgFunderNews.