The compounds in licorice root that may be helpful include glycyrrhizin (which is 50 times sweeter than sugar), licoricidin, and liquiritin. Here are some of things that licorice has been studied for: ...

Black licorice can be bad for you if you eat too much. Risks include an abnormal heart rhythm, ... Research has found that black licorice may lower high blood sugar and cholesterol.

It is 50 times sweeter than sugar but provides health benefits that sugar does not. Licorice root contains over 300 chemical compounds and flavonoids. ...

Licorice tea caused a healthy woman to get high blood pressure and her face and legs to swell up. The unnamed woman, 49, started drinking the tea to compensate for reducing the sugar in her diet.

Red Vines Black Licorice has the lowest sugar content at just 33 grams per 100 grams of product. That is almost a third of the sugar in Pixy Stix.

The licorice root compound glycyrrhizin is about 50 times sweeter than cane sugar and is the substance that eventually found its way into the bendy sticks and hard candies most of us know as licorice.

Red licorice tastes nothing like black licorice, and it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what black licorice tastes like ...