Licorice Extract

Licorice is native to parts of Asia. It is also known as “sweet roots”, which contains a compound that is roughly 50 times sweeter than sugar. It is an herbaceous perennial, growing to 1 m in height, with pinnate leaves about 7 – 15 centimeters long, the roots are straight pieces of wrinkled, fibrous wood, which are long and cylindrical (round) and grow horizontally underground and are brown on the outside and yellow on the inside.