How licorice wormed its way past our lips in the first place is a mystery to me. Yet worm it did. Licorice’s appearance on the culinary and medicinal stages really dates back to prehistoric ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N This Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 photo shows an arrangement of licorice candy pieces in New York. A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up ...

Glass jars hold over 100 types of licorice. The black varieties, made from real licorice root, can be soft, hard, or chewy and range from unsalted to quadruple salted.

U.S. confectionery companies are stocking store shelves with fewer Halloween chocolates and doubling down instead on cheaper gummies and licorice such as Mondelez's Sour Patch Kids and Hershey's ...

As if we don’t have enough to worry about these days, a New England Journal of Medicine case report warns that you can die from eating too much black licorice.

BOSTON -- A Massachusetts construction worker's love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutrients out of whack and caused ...

Eating as little as 2 ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks could cause a heart rhythm problem, especially for folks over 40, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns. "It's more than ...