Liquorice candy

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Haribo's licorice wheels

Liquorice candy (licorice in American English) is flavored with the extract of the roots of the licorice plant, and usually anise oil as well. A wide variety of licorice candies are produced around the world. In the U.S., the most common form of liquorice candy is known as black licorice and normally consists of chewy ropes or tubes. In the Commonwealth a mixture of various liquorice candies is known as liquorice allsorts. In the Netherlands, Northern Germany and Nordic countries, some liquorice candy is salty like salmiakki that often includes licorice extract, together with sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride.) The black color is strengthened by the use of carbon black as a food colouring agent.

[edit] Red 'liquorice'

In North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, there is also a product known as red liquorice, which is extruded in a way to resemble licorice, but is made with strawberry or cherry flavorings rather than liquorice. More recently similar products have been introduced in a wider variety of flavors including apple, mango, blackcurrant, watermelon and strawberry, among others. Hersheys (which makes Twizzlers), and Red Vines (whose product bears the same name) are the most well known product brands of this type in the United states, in Australia these are produced by Darrell Lea and several other companies. However, it should be noted that while the common name for this candy has now become "red liquorice", or often simply "liquorice", this candy has no connection to actual liquorice in composition or flavour. The term "black liquorice" has become a rarely-noticed redundancy.