Australian-based candy company Kookaburra Licorice distributes flavored and chocolate-covered licorice internationally. Ingredients vary slightly with each Kookaburra product but all Kookaburra Licorice varieties combine sweeteners with flour, natural flavors and preservatives.
Black Licorice
Kookaburra’s original black licorice includes wheat flour and sweeteners like molasses, treacle, wheat glucose syrup and raw sugar. Caramel and food dyes red 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 color the licorice, while licorice extract imparts flavor. Other ingredients include the thickening fats mono- and diglycerides, preservative sulphur dioxide, palm oil and modified food starch.
Flavored Licorice
Green apple, mango and raspberry licorice contain raw sugar, wheat glucose syrup, cane sugar, wheat flour, modified food starch, palm oil, licorice extract, artificial flavors, artificial colors and mono- and diglycerides. Citric acid regulates acidity, while sodium bicarbonate acts as a preservative. Raspberry licorice also utilizes treacle and sodium citrate, while mango and green apple flavors contain salt.
Chocolate-Covered Licorice
Chocolate-covered black licorice covers the original Kookaburra flavor with a milk chocolate coating consisting of cocoa butter, chocolate liquor, thickener soy lecithin, whole milk powder, sugar and vanilla. Chocolate-covered strawberry licorice utilizes the same coating over a strawberry licorice base of sugars, wheat flour, modified food starch, artificial colors and flavors, citric acid, water, palm oil, licorice extract, salt and the thickening agent soybean monoglyceride.