what plants are in homemade root beer
Homemade Root Beer & the Safrole Controversy. Wintergreen leaf, though almost always an ingredient in most traditional root beer recipes, replaced sassafras as the prominent flavor in root beer during the 1960s when a study conducted on lab animals implicated safrole, a naturally occurring polyphenol, in liver cancer.
A&W Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer and is still made fresh daily and sold at hundreds of A&W Restaurants. & W is one of those little establishments that have been around for years, but I fear that the years may be catching up with the A & W franchise.