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 ...

What It Really Costs: Raised eyebrows from your friends. I have more than a bit of a soft spot for international candy. A trip to the sweets aisle in a shop that sells foreign foods is a great way to ...

Here’s some depressing news from Food Consumer, just in time for Halloween: Licorice can cause irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia, and now the FDA encourages only moderate consumption of the ...

Licorice is a stickier subject than you might imagine. Strawberry and Cherry Twizzlers, for example, the oh-so-popular movie candies that everybody thinks of as licorice, don't contain licorice of any ...

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued an official warning about a candy that, honestly, most people are probably avoiding anyway: Black licorice. It’s not the sugar, it’s not the ...