Organic Spearmint Leaf

Alpha01 Organic Spearmint Leaf 500mg comes as 90 capsules, each with 500mg of dried and ground organic spearmint leaf, Mentha spicata. The only other ingredients are the hypromellose capsule shell and organic brown rice flour. The pouch carries the EU organic logo with the certifier’s code SK-BIO-003 and the words non-EU agriculture.

Spearmint is a natural hybrid mint whose leaf oil is mostly carvone, the molecule behind its clean, sweet mint note, whereas peppermint’s is menthol. The 500mg in each capsule is the whole ground leaf rather than an extract or an oil, so nothing has been concentrated or removed. Our guide, Spearmint Capsules: Organic Spearmint Leaf Capsules or Peppermint Oil?, explains the label and how the leaf compares with our peppermint oil softgels.

Take one capsule daily with water. With 90 servings, one pouch is a 90-day supply for £8.99, about 10p a day. The capsule shell is hypromellose, a plant-derived cellulose, so the capsules are vegan. If you would rather have the oil of the other mint, our Peppermint Oil 200mg softgels give 200mg of peppermint oil with 60mg of menthol, one a day for a year.