From sour spirals to the iconic salty licorice dominating the world of Swedish candy, licorice offers plenty to chew on for the curious consumer of sweets. However, when most Americans think of ...

When it comes to candy preferences, black licorice might be just as divisive as candy corn. But on the eve of Halloween, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

If you were planning on wolfing down black licorice for Halloween, you may want to choose something less risky to your heart, like candy corn. Not that candy corn is good for your heart. (It's not ...

Before January 2017, pastry chef Genevieve Gergis, who along with her chef husband, Ori Menashe, runs the Los Angeles restaurants Bestia and Bavel, was a self-proclaimed “not a licorice person.” Then ...

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Find out who should, and shouldn't, use it. Fact checked by Anna Harris Reviewed by Julia A. Siegel, MD Licorice extract inhibits tyrosinase production to effectively minimize dark spots and even out ...

A 54-year-old man who had been eating up to two large packages of candy a day died as a result of consuming too much licorice, according to a newly published study in The New England Journal of ...

If black licorice is among your candy stash this Halloween, be careful not to eat large amounts all at once, the Food and Drug Administration warned. Glycyrrhizin is a sweetening compound derived from ...

The 54-year-old US man from Massachusetts was at a fast-food restaurant last year when he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. He was taken to hospital but had died the following day. The unnamed man was ...