Liquorice chalks are cute, colorful, semi-soft candies flavored with a moderate percentage of licorice juice. Therefore, a licorice candy that is very suitable for children, both for its colorful appearance and because the strong flavor of licorice and its characteristic sour/bitter aftertaste are softened by the other ingredients of these candies. In fact, liquorice, which is a plant extract obtained by boiling the root (actually not the root but the rhizome, a part of the stem that grows underground and has expanded to act as a reserve of nutrients) of a perennial herbaceous plant native to the Mediterranean basin and the Near East, has a very strong flavour and is initially sweet on the palate (and this is not surprising given that it is essentially made up of carbohydrates) and then follows a sour/bitter aftertaste.

Glycyrrhiza glabra, this is the scientific name of the plant that belongs to the Fabaceae family and is therefore related to beans and peas, was one of the first aromatic plants discovered by humanity and has such medicinal properties that the ancient Greeks and Chinese essentially considered it a medicine. Some hypothesize that the fact that in countries like Japan, unlike in most of the world, the consumption of licorice as a sweet is not so widespread is due to this cultural heritage, the fact that they have always considered it a medicine.
In every country you go, you find a need, in Arab countries instead a drink made simply of licorice extract diluted in water is very popular and it seems to be an effective remedy against thirst so much so that it is offered to thirsty travellers by street vendors. Regarding its medicinal effects, licorice is an expectorant, an antiseptic, a remedy for low blood pressure and an energizer that acts on the nervous system, Greek and Chinese doctors prescribed it as a remedy for coughs but also as a digestive.
The other side of the coin: it can raise blood pressure. All this for information purposes only, because these characteristics concern pure licorice, in this product the percentage of licorice extract is so moderate that to have certain effects you would have to eat so much that you would probably have a blood sugar attack first.

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