Candy anise

Licorice is one of the most widely investigated plant products. Modern chemistry has allowed for the isolation, separation, and characterization of dozens of different compounds found in the root extract. No single component accounts for licorice s distinctive flavor, but anethole comes close. This compound occurs in the anise plant, from which it can be extracted, or it can be synthesized in the laboratory. Candy makers commonly use anethole to impart a licorice flavor to their products, like that black stringy confection. This is why naming the treat licorice is misleading. Even when it is made with real licorice extract, the concentration of licorice compounds is very low. We should be aware of this, because it means that neither the problems nor the potential therapeutic effects that we attribute to real licorice apply to the twists we chew on in movie theaters. Real licorice twists do exist, though — mostly in Europe. 

The aromatic, warm, and sweetish odor and taste of the seed, leaves, and stem arises from the presence of a volatile oil that contains anethole p-propenyl phenylmethyl ether, C3H5C6H4OCH3), the derivatives of which (anisole and anisaldehyde) are used in food flavoring, particularly bakery, liqueur, and candy products, as well as ingredients for perfumes. For commercial production of anise oil, the seeds and the dried, ripe fruit of the plant are used. Anise oil. a colorless to pale-yellow, strongly refractive liquid of characteristic odor and taste, is prepared by steam distillation of the seed and fruit. The oil contains choline, which finds use in medicine as a carminative and expectorant. 

Use Perfumes, particularly for dentifrices, flavors, synthesis of anisic aldehyde, licorice candies, color photography (sensitizer in color-bleaching process), microscopy. 

Products and Uses Utilized in perfume, anise flavor for dentifrice, and licorice candy, as a flavoring agent. 

Li-6 isotope source, prod., tritium Lithium hydroxide licorice candy synthesis Anise (Pimpinella anisum) oil life boats... 

Anisette liqueurs, candy, cough drops, together with star anise and anethole where appropriate. 

Due to the traditional use of anise oils with licorice in licorice candy, the flavor of anise is... 

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