What is the different of Peppermint and Mint?!
What is the different of Peppermint and Mint?
can someone tell me what the different of this two???
Answers:
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.
Mentha (mint) is a genus of about 25-30 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, with a subcosmopolitan distribution, seven from Australia, one in North America, and the others from Europe and Asia; several hybrids also occur.
Spearmint (Mentha spicata, syn M. viridis) is a species of mint native to central and southern Europe, where it grows in wet soils.
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Generic name , specific name,, and YOU forgot Spearmint
why pepper of course
they are two different types of plants...all mint plants...but there's spearmint plants, peppermint plants, etc.....my first instinct was that if a recipe calls for peppermint, i'd use an extract but if it calls for mint..i'd use mint leaves.....
That's just what I think I don't know if there's any fact behind that haha
Peppermint is a hybrid of water mint and spearmint and was first cultivated near London in 1750. Peppermint is now cultivated widely, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. The two main cultivated forms are the black mint, which has violet-colored leaves and stems and a relatively high oil content, and the white mint, which has pure green leaves and a milder taste. The leaves are used medicinally.
Mint is a family/ genus of plants (mentha), and peppermint is a member of that family (mentha piperita). There are about 20-30 members of the mint family, and one of them is peppermint. What's normally referred to as "mint" is watermint, and peppermint is a hybrid of 2 different members of the mint family.
"Mint" in the culinary sense is fresh-tasting, but mild, and peppermint is slightly spicier.