🌿 Licorice is a member of the pea family. It grows wild in southern Europe and Asia. It’s mostly grown for it’s rhizomes and roots.

🌿 Licorice is fifty times sweeter than sugar, but generally not used as a sweetener because of it’s strong flavor.

🌿 Licorice can be purchased as the whole dried root, sliced, or powdered.

🌿 When my children were small, they were given four or five inch pieces of licorice root at their school’s Halloween festival, as a healthy, sweet treat. They enjoyed chewing on it for weeks. Licorice root cleanses the mouth and teeth and arrests tooth decay because of it’s germicidal action.

🥗 I really thought that I was going to be writing about the fiber in lettuce, but there is so much more!

🥗 Lettuce is one of the most valuable healing foods because of it's high organic water content.

🥗 Lettuce also has nearly all the necessary vitamins.
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