Spearmint Essential Oil 15 ml - doTERRA
Spearmint Essential Oil 15 ml - doTERRA
Spearmint is a sweet, refreshing spice and herb, popular worldwide as a flavoring agent. Due to its refreshing, minty taste, it is widely used in chewing gums, sweets, and dental care products. Spearmint essential oil differs greatly from peppermint: among other things, it offers a milder alternative for food flavoring. In the kitchen, spearmint can be a splendid addition to salads, drinks, and desserts, and it can also be excellently used for homemade salad dressings and marinating meats.
Primary Benefits
- Adds a sweet, minty flavor to dishes.
- Use to flavor salads, drinks, desserts, salad dressings, and marinades.
- Makes a great blend with lavender, rosemary, basil, peppermint, and eucalyptus essential oils.
- Offers a milder alternative when peppermint essential oil would be too strong.
Cooking with Spearmint Essential Oil
Uses
- Add one drop of spearmint oil to desserts, drinks, salads, or appetizers.
- Make refreshing, minty homemade lemonade by adding freshly squeezed lemon juice, water, sugar, and a drop of spearmint essential oil.
- Bring a little novelty to your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe by adding a drop of spearmint essential oil to the dough mixture.
Directions for Use
Caution
Dilute before use. Do not take more than one drop per day. Keep out of reach of children. Avoid contact with eyes and mucous membranes.
Sourcing
Spearmint is typically a perennial plant, but in India, it is cultivated as an annual, resulting in a unique chemical composition for the oil extracted from it. A temperate climate is most favorable for it, and it can grow to a height of 30–100 cm. Growers can cultivate spearmint alongside traditional cash crops such as wheat, potatoes, and corn. Spearmint is planted in rotation in fields after each harvest, allowing for three harvests per year instead of one. Each grower delivers the spearmint to a community-based distillation unit, usually located within approximately 1 km of their home. To extract the essential oil, all above-ground parts of the plant (not just the roots) are used in steam distillation, which lasts about eight hours.
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