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.
Peppermint leaves are deep green, and they're longer and much more pointed than spearmint leaves. They're also are much flatter than the curling orange mint leaves, but they share the same kind of symmetry. Chocolate mint lives up to its name. This is a true dessert mint. Simply plucking a chocolate mint leaf and holding it in front of me, I can already smell something sweet. Like all mints, chocolate mint has a taste that's overpowered by its tingle, but chocolate mint numbs ever so gently. The leaves look very similar to the leaves of peppermint, but the stems have a distinct brownish-purplish tinge.