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Liquorice...once you go you black, you can't go back. True?

Posted - May 20, 2019

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  • False.
      May 20, 2019 8:26 PM MDT
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  • 44619
      May 21, 2019 8:03 AM MDT
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  •   May 21, 2019 8:05 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I can.  I like vanilla everything.  Sorry.  It is the only thing white I love.  Forgive me.  

    Too much liquorice can be dangerous too.

    Do not eat large amounts of black licorice this Halloween— or ever, warns the Food and Drug Administration. 

    The candy, made from a shrub usually found in Greece, Turkey and Asia, contains a compound (glycyrrhizin) that can lower a person's potassium levels, FDA experts say. So, eating too much could cause heart problems, high blood pressure, swelling and sluggishness, an FDA advisory reports.  

    Last year, the FDA heard of at least one case of black licorice causing health problems, according to the advisory. 

    Especially for those 40-years-old and older, eating two ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks could throw off heart rhythms. 

     

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 21, 2019 8:12 AM MDT
      May 21, 2019 8:10 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    I know...I dropped a 20 lb case of it on my foot. OUCH.
      May 21, 2019 8:14 AM MDT
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