DGL Licorice Chewables

These are small, dense, and unmistakably sweet — chewable tablets carrying the deep malt-and-anise flavor of true licorice root, with no coating needed to make them palatable. They are a warm tan throughout, flecked here and there with the coarser fiber of the root itself, evidence that little has been refined away. Held rather than chewed, they dissolve slowly, releasing that flavor in one long, mellow wave instead of all at once. Licorice root has been kept in apothecary stores since antiquity, found sealed in Egyptian tombs and listed in the earliest Chinese materia medica. Root extract is long valued for soothing the lining of the digestive tract, though the compound responsible for licorice's classic sweetness, glycyrrhizin, is generally best used in smaller amounts over time. DGL, short for deglycyrrhizinated licorice, is root extract processed to remove the bulk of that compound while keeping the flavonoids behind licorice's soothing reputation, tested to hold glycyrrhizin below two percent. Our root is sourced from Mediterranean growers and pressed into a chewable base sweetened with nothing but the root itself. Chew one or two tablets about twenty minutes before a meal. Keep a few loose in a bag or a car console — unlike a tincture, there is nothing here to measure or spill. A practical, old-world remedy in a modern, portable form, for anyone who wants the comfort of licorice without the usual caution that tends to come with it.