Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's better not to eat the whole bag: Liquorice contains substances that can have undesirable effects if you eat too much.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The debate around liquorice often centres on whether it's better salty or sweet - and yet the health impacts are often neglected.

Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), is a purple and white flowering perennial, native to the Mediterranean region and to central and Southwest Asia. It is cultivated widely for the sweet taproot that ...

A herb called liquorice thrives in some regions of Asia and Europe. Glycyrrhizin, an ingredient in liquorice root, can have negative effects if consumed in excessive quantities. Liquorice is known to ...

Glycyrrhizin – A natural anti-inflammatory agent that soothes the gut and regulates adrenal function. Flavonoids – Antioxidants that protect cells from oxidative stress and support immune function.

There are foods that can split families, or even just couples. Love it or hate it foods. Marmite (and the Antipodean alternative, Vegemite) is one. Then there’s Brussels sprouts, blue cheese, chilli ...

Liquorice is one of the quintessential love-or-hate ingredients: a raven paste that divides families more surely than Marmite, politics or morris dancing. Nowadays it lives in a Werther's wilderness ...

While the World Health Organization (WHO) considers it unlikely that consuming 100 mg of glycyrrhizic acid daily affects blood pressure, a recent small-scale study published in The American Journal of ...

Salty liquorice is an acquired taste - and many in Finland, Scandinavia and the Netherlands learn to love its sharp, sour flavours during childhood. But for those who are introduced to it later in ...

The liquorice fields may have disappeared from the countryside around Pontefract but at Liquorice Festival time the town celebrates its famous black sweeties in all sorts of ways. If you are wondering ...