Licorice candy (liquorice in British English) is flavored with the extract of the roots of the liquorice 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 licorice 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 and Nordic countries, some liquorice candy is salty like salmiakki that often includes licorice extract, together with ammonium chloride. Similar candies mixing licorice and ammonium chloride are very popular in all the Nordic countries and in the Netherlands. The black color is strengthened by the use of carbon black as a food coloring agent.

In the U.S. there is also a product known as red licorice, which resembles American black licorice, but is made with strawberry or cherry flavorings rather than licorice. Red Vines and Twizzlers are the most well known products of this type.

Other specific varieties of licorice candy

• Good & Plenty
• Turkish Pepper
• London drops
• Dutch licorice
• liquorice comfits
• Crows
• Black Jack
• Liquorette
• Liquorice root
• Nigroids
• Pontefract Cakes
• Sugarelly - traditional Scottish soft drink made with liquorice

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• American Licorice Co. produces Red Vines licorice and other "extruded candy products."

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