Spearmint vs Peppermint 🌿 What is the Difference?
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Spearmint and Peppermint can look very similar, but the best way to tell them apart is by tasting the leaves. Spearmint is subtle and sweet and about as minty as chewing gum, while peppermint is strong and pungent with lots of menthol.
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Love the music. It feels like a wizard is teaching me how to collect herbs for a potion!
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This is the thing that restored my digestive system back to normal when almost everything failed....
The Spearmint or peppermint ?
@@crystalrodriguez7844 Peppermint.
Ok... I probably put catnip in my smoothie. Thanks.
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My pleasure, thanks for the comment :)
Thank you! This completely helped me. I made two different teas and it was clear that I had spearmint and peppermint growing separately !!
The music is too loud and annoying: too upbeat for the calm talking and adds nothing to the value of the video (actually takes away). Very good explanation with a good manner and pleasant tone of voice -Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback.
Good feedback
Good info. It's common to see mint growing everywhere here. I tear the leaves and use them as an indoor room freshener. The music had me visualizing little garden nymphs dancing around. Loved all the bugs!
That aroma is so soothing, I love brushing up against it when I'm out in the garden :)
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I cut big bunches and tie them together to hang in the house when I leave on vacation. the house smells great when I return and it repels mice.
Thanks for sharing this vid with us all!! I’ve got tons of mint at home and wasn’t quite sure what kind it was lol
Most likely, its Spearmint, one of my new favorite herbs!
Awesome video, love the music! Keep up the great work teaching us:))
Thank you!
This is fascinating. I’m very new to gardening and plant research in general. But this was easy to understand, very clear and informative.
Thanks!
This was much easier to understand the differences then other sources I've checked. I've never cared for spearmint as much. Recently I bought spearmint and the leaves appeared more flat and shiny, different than I expected.
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Great information and I love the Medieval mystical sounding music.
This is the one video that told me all I wanted to know. Thanks.
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Very helpful and relaxing!
Thank you!
I really needed this!
I hope it helped :)
I am literally twirling with your background music.
Love the music, your voice and the explanation all that made me “Zen” lol.
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I just got spearmint so I want to try it!
Thanks for the info
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Lovely video. Thank you.
I have ulcerative colitis and NOTHING calms my guts like peppermint tea 😑 I don’t think I would handle ingesting the fibrous leaves of spearmint but it sounds delicious
Its fun to taste that familiar minty flavor from a green leaf :)
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Thank you!
Thank you.... love it...
I have a a ground crawling mint with tiny leaves i use it in chutney & coconuts chutneys also mojito
I have a mint bush that kinda appeared a few months ago, the leaves are quite large and very strong in smell and taste, which do I have :)
I'm having healthy sweet ment but it doesn't smell and no test as mint should be also not strong smell as its lost the smell ... is there any solution?
Nice info......keep it up
Thank you!
I currently have 2 kind of mint in a same pot, both came from same package and I grow them from the seeds. According to package, they should be same spearmint but one of them has hairy leaves and one is not. Is it possible to spearmint to have both hairy an plain leaves? I'm using spearmint for medical reason so it's important for me to identify them. By the way their taste are similar or it didn't make any difference for me. And thanks for the video.
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You would want to cut the flowers so the leaves would bushier and bigger also its a good idea to pot it also thanks for the great info
Thanks, I will try that this year on a few plants. I do love seeing the flowers tho
He's right.. I was given a small pot of mint plants by my neighbor.. and now I have 6' x 4' in my garden of nothing but mint. I dont have the heart to tear it out because I love the smell and the bees love it. Mint will take over your garden.. the roots are like long vines that connect to each plant that pop up.. so you would have to dig up ALL the roots in order to get rid of it.. A small piece of the root left behind will sprout more mint. Mint can grow in about anything, and everything. I did an experiment growing mint in piles of its own roots.. with no soil and it grew. Its a monster.
@@ChristopherJones16 do you know which one keeps spiders away? I heard one of them do
Awesome! TFS :)
The tea was surprisingly mild, definitely worth a try.
I make tea out of air dried mint plants from the stems flowers and leaves seeds to if there's any
Hi from Indonesia.... thanks for the video. By the way, is it the same way for both of them to propagate? Which one is easier to propagate?
Both spread very fast and can be propagated from stem cuttings. I like to root them first in water.
Great video. And finally one, that *really* makes the difference between spearmint and peppermint clear. (Now I know I've got spearmint in my garden.)
Oh good! Thats why I made this video. Thanks for watching!
Your spearmint looks much less fuzzy than mine. Mine also don't smell that great. Did I get the wrong kind or do they just need to mature more?
Thenk you for this amazing video but I'm still confused bcus I purchased dried spearmint /peppermint. I sent a Pic to Ur fb site profile. I would appreciate if u replied.
They can be used interchangeably, so try a test batch to know the strength of the menthol and use the rest accordingly. If its dried it could be either one, but the flavor fades more than other dried herbs so its going to be hard to tell.
What do you call spearmint is it the wild variety?
What is the name of this music?
According to my research, spearmint is a ground cover plant while pepper mint doesn't cover the ground
Wonderful video my friend. Spearmint is the best! I've had peppermint in the garden for many years and now have some spearmint which is far better in my opinion as it's tastier and better smelling.
That's great, thank you for sharing :)
Does it really matter what type of mint that you use in making cocktails such as a mint julep or just when you garnish a drink with mint?
Err on the side of spearmint for garnishing cocktails etc. it's milder and the sweet notes are really nice, peppermint is much more "spicy"
how to grow mint: You see some mint. you water it. Oops. Too much mint. Now start pulling it. Our yard has a lotta mint
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for some reason, peppermint always tasted too strong for me, I have sensitive taste buds so whenever I buy gum I always get spearmint flavour or maybe the fruity ones I forgot the name of in the yellow packets
Peppermint can cause irritation, so spearmint is the safer option.
Juicy fruit gum haha so good!
🤗👏 thanks 👍
Thanks for watching :)
I bought a peppermint plant but it doesn't smell minty as I thought it would be. It has purple/brownies stem and the leaves are rounder. I wonder what kind of peppermint is that?
Also, which type of peppermint is used for tea? The one who smells like toothpaste. I'm looking for that and it's hard because peppermint is not common where I live
@Next Step • Hi you are correct, this not peppermint but sweet mint.
Peppermint has a purple brown stem.
Sweetmint has a green stem.
Chocolatemint has a dark brown stem.
These 3 types of mints are almost identicle but smell different.
Spearmint has long narrow green leaves, grows more upright and smells like chewing gum.
What music is this? Awesome
the music I use is always in the video description :)
Music that overpowers the content
While it's true that spearmint is more applicable for things such as cooking, peppermint has used such as easing (not curing) toothaches/cavities, cooling sunburns and easing the heat felt with a fever if the leaves are crushed and smeared across the forehead.
After watching till the end I feel like that was somewhat passive aggressive and I'd like to apologize for it
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
the are common because they can be easily grown from cuttings.
Would peppermint be better as a healing hurb? because of the more elevated menthol levels.
Probably, yes.
Spearmint tastes way better.. there.. that’s the difference my friend !
Thank you;)
I definitely like Spearmint better.
I put some mint stems that I got from the grocery store in water to plant them after they grow roots, and they started rooting from the whole stem and not only the nodes, should I be concerned?What type of mint is it?😅
That is normal, mint is a fast spreading plant, just plant them like normal and any roots above the soil will dry up, thats fine. You most likely have spearmint, but I could not say for sure.
Give it a Grow thank you so much 😊 Your videos are so helpful
I tell them apart from how the flowers grow
Peppermint the flowers grow around the stems in round clusters and a pointy tip then spearmint the flowers grow in points but not around the stem
Thank you for that validation. My taster gets all mixed up and I don't know what is what, especially of I don't have the two plants side by side to compare.
The flowers though, yes mine grow along the stem. Now I know.
Isn't minty the opposite of spicy?
Is spearmint and mint ( pudina ) same ?? . Bcz in our country we can find pudina everywhere. But I can't distinguish btwn these two. Plz help
Yes, Pudina is another name for Mint, it can be either peppermint or spearmint.
In our country it's mainly spearmint
The video is helpful
Thanks
i wonder how it smells when you cut a patch of mint
So minty! Even brushing up against it smells nice.
I'm confused. I just watched a video that showed that the leaves looked very different. Are there different types of peppermint?
There are many different types of mint, some look very different to this spearmint.
@@GiveitaGrow thanks! had no idea there were so many varieties!
Which one good for Bad Breath???
Both!
Huh...I love peppermint and spearmint, but trying fresh leaves always tastes like nothing. But they smell incredible.
Hi, you seems to know a lot about mint
I want to ask that, some place on the internet said that peppermint is super hard to grow from seed, is that true?
Mint seeds are very small, and smaller seeds can be more difficult to grow. Mint spreads so well from roots, that is the preferred method of growing, but you can grow from seed if you know what you are doing. basically just press them into some potting soil or just dust them so they dont get buried too deep, keep them warm and moist and they should sprout.
@@GiveitaGrow Thanks, so it's difficult but not impossible
I grow spearmint ^^ can we put it in lemonade juice?
Yeah, you can use the mint fresh, or mix it with mint tea.
@@GiveitaGrow thanks ^^
Spearmint pudhina same
Like the choice of background music
I love spearmint..😘
Me too!
You should have crushed them a little for the tea. It releases the oils...and taste.
Boiling does a good job of extracting the flavor.
Literally today I got these breath mints, and i got the peppermint version, thinking it was gonna be the sweeter one cus i didn't know the difference. So i just tasted them and obviously i got the more bitter sorta taste, so i came to look at a video explaining the difference, and i found this one. Needless to say i'm angry at myself getting the peppermint instead of spearmint, then again I now know better.
Peppermint is pungent! My oregano is the same, it stings the tongue.
@@GiveitaGrow Yeah, thats what I don't really like about it. I just don't enjoy food that sting/cause pain as I think it ruins the dining experience.
P.S: I finally got the spearmint version of the breath mints.
We were in a nursery and the guy said they only had spearmint when we wanted peppermint because that was the only variety of flavour we only ever saw in commercial flavourings thinking peppermint was superior ,lol. We bought it anyway and now I think I dodged a bullet buying spearmint instead.
I like both Spearmint and Peppermint gum
what does spearmint taste like
Mint :)
I have a mint called spearmint that has more rounded leaves and is fuzzy and taste like spearmint what is it ,the person i got it from said it was spearmint
Spearmint.
Round and fuzzy? Her-ass-mint hehe 😉
He's got the two mixed up. The common garden mint everyone uses in the kitchen is spearmint which is what you would have. It has rounded leaves. i don't know which mint he is using but it's not spearmint.
...did u make the chocolate urself? They look homemade
Nope, just some nestle chocolate chips
@@GiveitaGrow ah. Ok. 👍
Cool
Thanks :)
Paper cover + mint + chewy = gum
Huh, In Spanish only Peppermint is called Mint, Spearmint is called "Hierbabuena", or "Goodherb"
So i always get confused on wich is wich lol
I usually just smell them to differentiate them, Spearmint smells more mellow and sweet, while Peppermint is overpowering
They are both field mint Mentha arvensis
Confused
Like this middle age 🎶 music
Put it with green and black teas for 1-2 minutes then strain. Makes teas taste great. Moroccan style
Just found a ton of mint in my backyard. First year that I'm aware of it. I really enjoyed the video but I'll admit, at times he was holding the leaves and talking about both. So I'm still feeling a bit clueless. I feel like all he had there was spearmint? I dunno! It would be nice if he edited and added captions saying "spearmint" "peppermint" based upon what's on the screen at that time
Yeah, I only have spearmint. The difference between the two (peppermint vs spearmint) is subtle, especially when you consider different types of spearmint can look completely different.
I had to go to a nursery where all the varieties of mints they had were labeled, and still double-checked with attendant to make sure.
Which is the Yerba Buena? I'm thinking it's the Peppermint, but I only bought Spearmint. Will try it anyway. Can't hurt, and hoping it helps my queasiness.
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Thanks...yeah they all look so similar.
Good Luck! 💕
@@lupejones3694 And sorry I've forgotten most of the video (wrote that 2 yrs back) so I haven't a clue which on is the Yerba Buena 😂...but in any case I hope the spearmint helps!
Difference in taste described here seems wrong
Lol spear mint and pepper mint from pvz 2
I like spearmint
The music is loud and distracting.
I wanted to hear what you are saying.
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1:50 I doubt wasps do pollinate small flowers like mint, their mouth is totally different from bees and butterflies. Wasps better will attack beehive and eat ready honey or some fallen sugary fruits.
They can pollinate the flowers just by walking on them.
I can imagine the honey from those bees will taste like menthol.
:,c Entonces spearmint es la conocida Hierbabuena?????
Couldn't distinguish spearmint from peppermint . You have shown only spearmint plant & not the peppermint one in your video.
What the hell u talking about ("wasp") there not pollinators
You made a video about both yet you only have one plant to show us?😫
Spearmint for the tongue, peppermint for the gut 😄
Whoh
So peppermint just packs a punch, huh?
Yep, very strong.
Please turn the music off.
Thanks for the feedback.
I don’t think anybody knows the difference this guy confuse me he’s saying it’s peppermint then he said it’s probably spearmint.?.?
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Rub it in ur eyes 👀
It BURNS!!! lol
Lol
I rub it on my wiener.
Peppermint tastes way better than Spearmint. There is a big difference between Peppermint and Spearmint Spearmint is nasty.
Dont exaggerate...they're both nice:)