Organic Spearmint Loose Leaf Herbal Tea

Dried Mentha spicata leaf — sweet, cooling, and rounded, without the sharp cold bite of peppermint. Spearmint's aroma comes mostly from carvone rather than menthol, which is why it reads as soft and almost candy-sweet where peppermint reads as icy.

It is the gentler of the two culinary mints, and the one most people actually want in a cup: cooling on the finish, easy to drink plain, and forgiving if you walk away from the steep.

Flavor

Sweet • Cooling • Green • Low menthol • Clean finish

Ingredients

Organic dried spearmint leaf (Mentha spicata). Single-ingredient. No additives or fillers. Naturally caffeine-free.

How to Brew

Use 1–2 teaspoons per 8 oz cup. Pour water just off the boil over the leaf and steep 5 to 7 minutes, covered.

Spearmint is more forgiving than most herbs — a long steep turns it grassy rather than bitter — but covering the cup still keeps the volatile oils in the water instead of venting them into the room. Dried mint breaks down finer than most leaf herbs, so a fine mesh infuser or a set of unbleached drawstring filter bags will catch what a wide-hole strainer lets through.

Ways to Use

Spearmint is the mint behind Moroccan-style mint tea, steeped alongside green tea and sugar and poured from a height to build the foam. It is also excellent cold: brew double-strength and chill, or cold-brew it overnight in the refrigerator. Our complete guide to spearmint leaf walks through every method, plus how to tell good dried leaf from dust.

Blends well with lemon balm for a citrus-mint cup, with chamomile for something rounder and sweeter, with nettle to lift its green, hay-like edge, or with raw honey. It earns its keep in the kitchen too — tabbouleh, yogurt sauces, peas, and lamb.

Product Details

• Loose leaf herbal tea — dried leaf (Mentha spicata)
• Single-ingredient, caffeine-free
• Available in 4 oz, 8 oz, and 1 lb pouches
• Organic — carefully sourced
• Small-batch packed by Farmer Soul, Las Vegas, Nevada

Storage

Seal tightly and keep in a cool, dark, dry place. Mint holds its aroma better than most leafy herbs, but heat and light will flatten it — keep the pouch away from the stove and out of the window.