Talk:Peppermint extract

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Is it right that the medical properties have not been proven? I have been prescribed peppermint oil capsules as treatment for IBS in the UK, the NHS are not well known for prescribing drugs which are not proven to work.

They have been, according to the main peppermint article which has citations.Straw Cat (talk) 01:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Citation 6 should be removed, the link is to an article that is trying to sell a product and could contain bias and misinformation to sell said product with no outside sources. EmOneGarand (talk) 16:04, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think some rewording is needed since the antispasmodic effects are proven to be medically useful in a number of areas, even if it not a frontline treatment for anything. You do have to be very carful with any essential oil stuff though since even just a single incautiously worded sentence in a wikipedia article can spawn a thousand essential oil pseudoscience treatments. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 05:41, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Does it exist?[edit]

Hi folks, does peppermint extract exist at all? The etheric oil is very important (peppermint oil), therefore it is absolutely not sensible that "peppermint oil" redirects to "peppermint extract". Peppermint oil is an important article of commerce, but an extract of peppermint I have never heard of. This is not a good situation not to have an article on the oil, but one on the exract. People easily might mix up the two. Also I believe most of the things written here apply to the oil, not the extract.Elhacat (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well you can have an aqueous extract, but I feel like that is more of a footnote since it is rather uncommon, there should be some clarification since they have quite different composition. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 05:37, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Peppermint extract is a flavouring sold in grocery stores in the baking aisle, along with vanilla extract and almond extract, at least in Canada. It is not the same thing as peppermint essential oil. Rosemary Amey (talk) 01:17, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]