Licorice, European

The difference of the substituents at C-5 is expected that European and Chinese licorices exhibit different actions in therapeutically use. For example, 5,6-disubstituted isoflavans do not showed a potency of... 

Products and Uses Derived from a European herb. A food and beverage spice found in vermouth wine, root beer, cream soda, butter, fruits, licorice, black... 

Licorice contains approximately 1 to 7% of the compound glycyrrhizin (Kondo et al. 2007). Many commercial products are standardized to 12% glycyrrhizin, and the European Pharmacopoeia specifies that licorice root should contain a minimum of 4% glycyrrhizin (Council of Europe 2001). 

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