what's a licorice?

Question

sure, I could check the internet to find the answer, but I wanna be kind and give someone 10 points to do it for me :)

Answer 1

HERE YA GO....THE 411 ON LICORICE....



Liquorice candy (licorice in American English) is flavored with the extract of the roots of the licorice plant, and usually anise oil as well. A wide variety of liquorice candies are produced around the world. In the U.S., the most common form of liquorice candy is known as black licorice and normally consists of chewy ropes or tubes. In the Commonwealth a mixture of various liquorice candies is known as liquorice allsorts. In the Netherlands, Northern Germany and Nordic countries, salty liquorice contains ammonium chloride as an additional spicy ingredient.

Composition
The essential ingredients of liquorice candy are liquorice extract, sugar, and a binder. The binder is typically starch/flour, gum arabic, or gelatin, or a combination thereof. Additional ingredients are extra flavoring, beeswax for a shiny surface, ammonium chloride for salty liquorice candy, and molasses to give the end product the familiar black color.[1]


[edit] Production
During manufacturing, the ingredients are dissolved in water and heated to 135 °C. In order to obtain candies of the desired shapes, the liquid is poured into molds, that are created by impressing holes into a container filled with starch powder. The liquid is then dried and the resulting candies are sprayed with beeswax in order to give their surface a shiny appearance.


[edit] Health effects
The liquorice-root extract contains the natural sweetener glycyrrhizin that is over 50 times sweeter than sucrose. This ingredient has various pharmaceutical properties, the most important ones being that it acts as an expectorant (facilitating removal of mucus from the lungs by coughing) and that it increases the blood pressure. The latter effect can become significant with a daily consumption of 50 g or more of liquorice candy.[2]

In North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, there is also a product known as red liquorice, which is extruded in a way to resemble licorice, but is made with strawberry or cherry flavorings rather than liquorice. More recently similar products have been introduced in a wider variety of flavors including apple, mango, blackcurrant, watermelon and strawberry, among others. Twizzlers (by Hersheys) and Red Vines are the most well known product brands of this type in the United States, in Australia these are produced by Darrell Lea and several other companies. However, it should be noted that while the common name for this candy has now become "red liquorice", or often simply "liquorice", this candy has little connection to actual liquorice in composition or flavor. Consequently, the term "black liquorice" (or "black licorice") has become a retronym.

Answer 2

A candy flavored with anise or oil from a licorice plant. Molasses gives it the dark color.

Answer 3

it is nasty and i dont have to check the internet to know that

Answer 4

it`s a monkey :)

Answer 5

NASTY.