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Peppermint Extract

Healthy Smoothie Recipes with Peppermint Extract

What is Peppermint Extract?

Almond extract is typically made from alcohol, water, and peppermint oil.  It is commonly used in cooking, in supplements, or in alternative medicine.

Benefits of Extract?

Peppermint extract is filled with antioxidants and is commonly used to soothe symptoms of the common cold or flu.  It has also been used used to help with pain relief, headaches, craps, digestion, bloating, antiviral, and bad breath.

Can I use Peppermint Essential Oil Instead?

Yes. Just make sure your essential oil is intended for oral ingestion. Some essential oils are made for the skin, but not to be ingested. Essential peppermint oil is much stronger than peppermint extract, so start with only a couple drops and taste the smoothie, then add additional, as desired.

Nutrition Facts
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Peppermint Extract scores well for 8 health goals

This ingredient was scored for various health goals Learn more.

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Recipe Score:100

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Allergy

Recipe Score:90

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Brain

Recipe Score:90

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Herpes

Recipe Score:90

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Stress - Adrenal

Recipe Score:88

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HIV

Recipe Score:84

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Immune System

Recipe Score:84

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Prostate

Recipe Score:82

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The Research

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Score 100

Summary:

Human: Peppermint oil capsules are safe and effective in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. It improves abdominal symptoms in children with irritable bowel syndrome. It improves abdominal symptoms in patients with IBS. It is a safe and effective therapeutic agent with IBS. It is effective in relieving abdominal pain in diarrhea predominant IBS.

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Allergy

Allergy: Score 90

Summary:

peppermint may be clinically effective in alleviating the nasal symptoms of allergic rhinitis.

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Brain

Brain: Score 90

Summary:

Peppermint aroma enhances memory and increases alertness.

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Herpes

Herpes: Score 90

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Human: Peppermint oil has been used to successfully treat post herpetic neuralgia. In Vitro: It inhibits HSV-1, HSV-2 and acyclovir resistant strains of HSV-1.

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Stress - Adrenal

Stress - Adrenal: Score 88

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Animal: Peppermint oil appears to protect against stress induced adverse changes.

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HIV

HIV: Score 84

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In Vitro: Peppermint exhibits anti-HIV-1 activity.

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Immune System

Immune System: Score 84

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In Vitro: it inhibits multi-resistant strains of bacteria and yeast. It has antifungal properties.

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Prostate

Prostate: Score 82

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In Vitro: It enhances anti-proliferative activity of vitamin D in prostate cancer cells.

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How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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