Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black licorice may look and taste like an innocent treat, but this candy has a dark side. On Sept. 23, 2020, doctors reported that ...

A 54-year-old man who had been eating up to two large packages of candy a day died as a result of consuming too much licorice, according to a newly published study in The New England Journal of ...

Products that do contain licorice might not disclose how much of the glycyrrhizin compound is contained per ounce, but the Food and Drug Administration regulates that soft licorice candy contains no ...

Black licorice may look and taste like an innocent treat, but this candy has a dark side. On Sept. 23, 2020, it was reported that black licorice was the culprit in the death of a 54-year-old man in ...

A Massachusetts man lost his life because he ate too much of the candy he loved. According to a report by AP News, the construction worker had been eating a bag and a half of black licorice for a few ...

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 the ...

Licorice is more than a candy people either love or hate—it may play a role in preventing or treating certain types of cancer, according to researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago.