Liquiritin and isoliquiritin are major licorice flavonoid glycosides that share the same elemental formula but use different core shapes. Liquiritin is the glucose-linked form of the...

Licorice root contains hundreds of compounds, and glycyrrhizin and liquiritin illustrate two major chemical families. Glycyrrhizin is a sweet triterpene saponin built from glycyrrhetinic acid linked...