LIQUORICE lovers hold on to your shorts! Let’s dive into the delicious and much loved liquorice and the roots of its history. Believe it or not. the liquorice sweets and ropes we all know and love are ...

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 ...

A BUILDER with a liquorice addition has died after eating a bag of the sweet treat every day, doctors have revealed. The 54-year-old man who lived in Massachusetts US, went into cardiac arrest at a ...

12:37, Tue, Aug 27, 2024 Updated: 12:42, Tue, Aug 27, 2024 People hoping to lose weight are advised to add a common chewy food to their diet. According to health experts and various studies, liquorice ...

Black licorice isn’t a treat for folks over 40 – as it can cause them heart problems if eaten too much, the Food and Drug Administration warned this week. The tasty sweet contains glycyrrhizi, which ...

Did you get a black box for Christmas? I don't mean the aircraft flight-recorder type, but a box in which to stash your precious supplies of liquorice. I'm referring, of course, to the black box that ...

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 ...

Quite who brought liquorice to the West Yorkshire town of Pontefract remains a mystery, but for centuries, the two have been inextricably linked. So strong is Pontefract’s association with the sweet ...

An unusual “sweet” crop is growing in West Yorkshire, thanks to one pioneering farmer. Nigel Burnham reports. Robert Copley, owner of a multi-award-winning farm shop, has taken diversification to new ...