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 ...

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, liquorice is regarded as a “panacea”. A recent study has now, for the first time, scientifically confirmed the healing properties of this natural substance.

Liquorice is a good anti-inflammatory agent that reduces pain and inflammation in the skin. Let's take a look at some of the health benefits of liquorice and its side effects. A herb called liquorice ...

The potent ingredient glycyrrhizic acid gives black liquorice its distinctive sweet taste. (Getty Images) A construction worker’s love of black liquorice may have contributed to his death. The unnamed ...

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 ...

Men who eat too much liquorice could risk damaging their sex lives, according to a study. Researchers from Iran have found that liquorice - used in sweets, chewing gum, toothpastes and herbal remedies ...

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 ...