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Apparently a large amount of produced liquorice goes to flavor cigarettes, up to 4% of the weight of a cigarette's tobacco blend is liquorice[0]. So I would wager that smoking liquorice has killed more people than eating it (not that that tidbit of info helps in the case of the man in the article). [0] https://www.dkfz.de/de/tabakkontrolle/download/PITOC/PITOC_T...
I did some looking into what made black licorice taste so good and to see if enjoying it was genetic. I was surprised to find out it can be toxic. All of these years my grandfather and I have been poisoning each other. Guess we should celebrate we survived it with a pint of sarsaparilla.
It tastes absolutely horrible to me. I guess somewhere deep down, I knew all along that it's actually poison.
> The patient had also recently changed the type of sweets he was eating. A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice.
It sounds like this person was already on an EXTREMELY bad diet. I have personally known construction workers who live off of three square meals of gas station junk food for weeks at a time.
https://www.vitalnutrients.net/dgl-powder.html
This product is usually used to improve health, not for its taste (though it does taste good IME), and does not contain sugar.
That and root beer.
I don't know if I will like the taste, I just want to know it.
EDIT: Why the downvotes? If could buy that stuff I would have!
I did some looking into what made black licorice taste so good and to see if enjoying it was genetic. I was surprised to find out it can be toxic. All of these years my grandfather and I have been poisoning each other. Guess we should celebrate we survived it with a pint of sarsaparilla.
Everything is toxic in high enough quantities.