Sodium increases fluid retention, so don't use the salt shaker. And if recipes call for salt, try adding more pepper or another spice instead. But, most importantly, cut down on processed foods and fast foods, all of which are overflowing with salt.
The plant flowers from mid to late summer and are purple in colour. The leaves and the flowering tops of the peppermint are used, and they are harvested as soon as the flowers begin to open so that they can be dried.eppermint is a hybrid mint variety of spearmint and watermint. â¢ Peppermint extract is made from pure peppermint oil whereas mint extract can be derived from any number of, or combination of, culinary mint plants.
Re: identifying peppermint. The easiest way to test mints are to taste them. I find that spearmint is lighter green than peppermint and mine at least have bigger leaves. My peppermint leaves are not as bumpy as the spearmint and spearmint stems are greener. Applemint and pineapple mint look alike.