Steenbergs Organic Peppermint

Organic Peppermint has mouth-freshening, menthol flavours and spicy notes.

Use it to flavour yoghurt or potato salad for a refreshing taste or infuse to make a pleasant tasting herbal tea that is relaxing and helps your digestion. Organic Peppermint’s spicy mintiness is great for salad dressings, teas and ice-creams, or to flavour a chocolate sauce.

Axel’s Tasting Notes: Strong; Cooling, mouth-freshening, with hints of spices, pepper and wood.

More about Peppermint

Peppermint is a cross between spearmint and watermint that occurred in Britain, called Mentha piperita officinalis. It’s a perennial that is easy to grow.

Peppermint grows to 30 – 60 cm in height and has pale purple flowers in the summer. Peppermint leaves are less pointed than spearmint leaves, with a more oval shape.

Dried peppermint is made by dehydrating the freshly cut leaves to get the moisture content down to around 10% by weight, leaving the leaves crisp. They are then rubbed from the stems and cut to the relevant size required.