SC - fennel as "breath sweetener

[ND Wederstrandt]

I just put fennel into my garden and was rereading a section from an herb
book which stated that the stalks could be eaten aften a meal as a breath
freshier.
It might also be okay to candy them much like angelica stalks are candied
and eaten as breath sweeteners. Normally the seeds are eaten.  People
became very addicted to them  (I read a complaint somewhere about a woman
who ate so many that she left a little trail of seeds everywhere.

Clare