Menta Spicata Spearmint, Certified Organic, Cut & Sifted.
Sold by the gram, $0.0907/g. Please bring or order a bag
MINIMUM ORDER IS 100g OR $5 WORTH and buy a bag or another suitable container (search JAR or BOTTLE on our website).
You can bring your own container if you are picking up. Please make sure that you bring bottles for liquids and wide-mouthed jars or bags for solids. Please make sure that the containers you bring are the right size. To use your container for oils, the bottle must be exactly the right size because I will be filling your order by volume. A 1000mL J jar, not a quart jar. In case of shorting due to metric versus imperial measures, I may fill your container right to the top, your measure might be short, or I may ask you to buy an extra container.
DESCRIPTION
A hardy perennial mint with bright green serrated leaves, spearmint has served as an important medicinal herb for millennia. Originally native to the Mediterranean countries, it is now common in many parts of the world. The Bible records that the ancient Pharisees paid tithes to their Temple in anise, cumin, and spearmint. The sixteenth-century English herbalist Gerard quotes the Roman historian Pliny, "The smell of Mint does stir up the mind and the taste to a greedy desire of meat." Beginning in about the fourteenth century, spearmint was used for whitening teeth, and its distilled oil is still used to flavour toothpaste and chewing gum, although it is not as commonly used as peppermint.
PARTS USED
The leaf, dried and cut.
TYPICAL PREPARATIONS
Taken as a tea and added to other herbal mixtures for flavour. Also used in some culinary creations.
DISCLAIMER
The information presented on this website is for informational, reference and educational purposes only and should not be interpreted as a substitute for diagnosis and treatment by a health care practitioner.