The Beginning. Ten years ago, SUE, the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton of so much acclaim, laid buried near the bottom of a large hill in north central South Dakota. She had remained entombed and unnoticed, since her death approximately sixty-five million years ago.
Sugar can be made from two main sources, either sugar cane or sugar beets. Its history of introduction into Western Europe is traced back to the early growth of sugar cane prior to the 6th century B.C.E. in Polynesia.
Much of the sweetness in liquorice comes from glycyrrhizin, which has a sweet taste, 30â50 times the sweetness of sugar. The sweetness is very different from sugar, being less instant, tart, and lasting longer. The isoflavene glabrene and the isoflavane glabridin, found in the roots of liquorice, are phytoestrogens.he word liquorice is derived (via the Old French licoresse) from the Greek Î³Î»ÏÎºÏÏÏÎ¹Î¶Î± (glukurrhiza), meaning sweet root, from Î³Î»ÏÎºÏÏ (glukus), sweet + á¿¥Î¯Î¶Î± (rhiza), root, the name provided by Dioscorides.