what is peppermint?

Answer 1

Nice smelling chemical.

Answer 2

PLANT:
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a (usually) sterile hybrid mint, a cross between watermint (Mentha aquatica) and spearmint (Mentha spicata). It is occasionally found wild with its parent species in central and southern Europe, but the first intentional crossbreed of watermint and spearmint was done in England. Being sterile, it spreads by rooting.

The stems are from 30-70 cm tall, rarely up to 100 cm, smooth, and square in cross section. The leaves are from 4-9 cm long and 1.5-4 cm broad, dark green with reddish veins, and with an acute apex and coarsely toothed margins. The flowers are purple, 6-8 mm long, with a four-lobed corolla about 5 mm diameter; they are produced in whorls around the stem, forming thick, blunt spikes. Flowering is from July to September.

Peppermint is generally regarded as 'the world's oldest medicine', with archeological evidence placing its use at least as far back as ten thousand years ago.

Answer 3

Peppermint is a relative of numerous wild mint plants, deliberately bred in the late 1600s in England to become the delightful tasting plant so well known today. It is widely used as a beverage tea and as a flavoring or scent in a wide variety of products.

Peppermint tea also has a long history of medicinal use, primarily as a digestive aid and for the symptomatic treatment of cough, colds, and fever. Peppermint oil is used for chest congestion (Vicks VapoRub), as a local anesthetic (Solarcaine, Ben-Gay), and most recently in the treatment of irritable bowel disease, also known as spastic colon.

Peppermint
Mentha piperita


Principal Proposed Uses
• ORAL: Dyspepsia; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Other Forms of Spasms in the Digestive Tract
Other Proposed Uses
• INHALED (AROMATHERAPY): Respiratory Congestion; Nausea
• TOPICAL: Tension Headaches
• ORAL: Gallstones

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Answer 4

Sweetie,it is a flavoring that is often put in candy's.It has a strong,but lovely taste.It is added in many other things.It is used in cooking such as ice cream,candy canes,peppermint candies.It is a basicly a refreshing extract that is used in cooking.Good luck hun and have a good day!

Answer 5

It's an aromatic, perennial plant. (Mentha piperita) of the mint family, with lance-shaped leaves and whitish or purplish flowers in dense terminal spikes.The pungent oil it yields, used for flavoring. A candy or lozenge flavored with this oil.

Answer 6

It is a type of mint (an herb), it grows here in GA as a weed, it can be really invasive. There are many types of mint, apple mint, black mint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, etc... all with slightly different flavors.

They are used to make mint juleps, as well as flavoring many things from sweet to savory.

Answer 7

it is an herb , that is grown just like basil sage etc... you use it for several different thing, its good to put in a salad, i like it on pork during the winter, with a lite sauce made with a hint of vanilla bean it can be use to make tea, it sooths the up set stomach..

Answer 8

its gives you that fresh breathe feeling when you chew bubble gum
Its a candy to eat after a meal to refreshen you mouth and breath.
and it a cough sweet you take when you have a sour throat or cough to help ease it a little
Its the fresh clean taste you get from toothpast. and its the delicous fresh minty taste you get when eating chocolate.

Answer 9

crystalised mentha oil

Answer 10

it is a hard candy mint