Dry licorice roots are available in the form of short sticks or cut pieces. These are graded under regular unselected type, semi-hand selected cuts and elite one by one hand selection and sorting. The selection type depends on the buyer’s preferences for quality requirements and reasonable price settings. These licorice sticks are also graded based on thin sticks, medium width and wide width diameter or thickness. These roots are completely dried and the tips are yellow. The width or diameter of these small sticks is mentioned below:
Small range: From 10.20 – 11.30mm
Medium range: From 17.70 – 21.50mm
Large range: From 27.00 – 31.00mm
Long sticks are also graded based on thickness and width criteria and on the basis of yellow color on the inside of these licorice longsticks. Longsticks are available as semi-selected and one by one premium hand selected sticks. liquorice long sticks go upto cm in length liquorice roots is greatly appreciated for its good glycyrrhizic content and is in the form of long sticks with upto 30 cm and the width ranges from 0.5 cm to 2 cm. The yellow tips of these long sticks are an indication of their premium quality and special selection process. Long sticks vary in length from 7 inches to 9’ and more. Again the diameter of these licorice sticks can be selected and segregated based on thin i.e., small, medium i.e. thicker grade and large i.e., very thick upto 2.5 cm in length.
Licorice slice cuts are obtained by a premeditated process of slicing the dried liquorice sticks with or without humidifying effects. Slice cuts licorice has huge demand particularly in the Far East markets for its valuable and extensive uses and yield of glycyrrhizin and glabredin content. Sliced licorice roots can without difficulty be added or mixed into diverse mixtures resulting in an assortment of conducts.
Obtained by a premeditated process of slicing, this form is the most generally used around the globe. Sliced licorice roots can without difficulty be added or mixed into diverse mixtures resulting in an assortment of conducts
This type of liquorice roots is greatly appreciated for its good glycyrrhizic content and is in the form of long sticks with upto 30 cm long and the width ranges from 0.5 cm to 2 cm. The yellow tips of these long sticks are an indication of their premium quality and special selection.
This type of liquorice roots is greatly appreciated for its good glycyrrhizic content and is in the form of long sticks with upto 30 cm long and the width ranges from 0.5 cm to 2 cm. The yellow tips of these long sticks are an indication of their premium quality and special selection.
Al Farid Corporation offers milled licorice powder from the unpeeled liquorice sticks at various degrees of fineness such as 120 mesh, 150 mesh, 240 mesh and/or as per the client’s preference. The sifting of licorice powder results in varied taste, texture and ash content whereas these results primarily depend on the quality of licorice roots being processed into powder. The highest content and quality of licorice powder is achieved when the hand selected liquorice sticks (yellow from the inside and do not carry any foreign matter or dust particles) are milled into powder.
Taste of licorice powder is typical of sweet licorice with very high glycyrrhizic acid and content. Texture of licorice material depends on the mesh grade it is milled at. The total ash content is acceptable due to the very sophisticated selection process used for selecting these dried unpeeled licorice sticks. Licorice powder is used as a botanical raw material in the natural flavor and ingredients industry for various pharma and tea industrial uses. The lab usually analyses liquorice unpeeled root powder on the mesh grade criteria for parts over 0.315 mm mesh, parts over 0.2 mm mesh, parts over 0.15 mm, parts below 0.15 mm mesh.
Unpeeled licorice roots are crushed and milled to make fluffy mesh siftings. This grade is also popularly known in the tea industry as tea bag cut or licorice fine cut. Liquorice fine cut is used in the natural flavor industry as an ingredient in making herbal or licorice tea and also valued for its miraculous properties in the medicinal and pharma industry.
This is the crushed form of dried licorice roots, also known as the tea grade powder. As per its uses in the tea making industry, these roots can be crushed at different degrees.
- Dried Liquorice Roots Cut Pieces
- Dried Licorice Roots Long Sticks
- Dried Licorice Roots Slice Cuts
- Dried Licorice Roots Diced Wide Cuts
- Dried Licorice Roots Slanted Cuts Supreme Finger Size
- Dried Liquorice Roots Square Cuts
- Licorice Powder 120 Mesh
- Dried Licorice Roots Fine Cut or Tea Bag Cut/Crushed Tea Grade
- Dried Liquorice Roots Cut Pieces Regular Grade