11 Facts About Liquorice

Liquorice plant is an herbaceous perennial legume native to Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

Liquorice extracts have been used in herbalism and traditional medicine.

Liquorice grows best in well-drained soils in deep valleys with full sun.

Liquorice is used as a flavouring agent for tobacco, for flavour-enhancing and moistening agents in the manufacture of American blend cigarettes, moist snuff, chewing tobacco, and pipe tobacco.

Liquorice provides tobacco products with a natural sweetness and a distinctive flavour that blends readily with the natural and imitation flavouring components employed in the tobacco industry.

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Liquorice flavour is found in a wide variety of candies or sweets.

Liquorice confections are primarily purchased by consumers in Europe, but are popular in other countries such as Australia and New Zealand.

Liquorice is used in Syria and Egypt, and only in Diyarbakir in Turkey, where it is sold as a drink, in shops as well as street vendors.

Liquorice is an extract from the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant which contains glycyrrhizic acid, or GZA.

Liquorice extract is often found in many sweets and candies, some drugs, and beverages like root beer.

Liquorice had been eating a bag of black licorice a day for three weeks previously.