Peppermint tea is simply infused peppermint leaves. Mint tea is mint leaves with other ingredients, usually a green tea, traditionally gunpowder tea in North Africa where mint tea has a strong culture, and often various spices and in North Africa particularly, lots of sugar.
I tried a taste test of three brands of peppermint tea. All three contain nothing but cut peppermint leaves.
The Tesco brand was the cheapest - 80p for a box of 20 bags = 30g. The bags are large, and are kept in foil, but are not individually wrapped.
Twinings Invigorating Peppermint had the smallest bag. They are individually wrapped in glossy paper bags - as you open you tear off a square of the paper which is attached to the bag with a string. It doesn't look good. These were the middle priced at £1.49 for 20 bags = 40g.
Taylors Peppermint Leaf had the most attractive box. Each medium sized bag individually wrapped with a pleasant little cardboard tag. The bags were the most expensive at £2.99 for 20 bags = 33g.
Taylors have a pleasant taste, quite bright, giving an immediate pleasant sensation, yet are also interestingly earthy, giving a natural feel. Twinings are the least pleasant, having a stodgy quality. They taste the l;east minty, and aroma and flavour both have a cardboard quality. The strongest is the Tesco, with a very assertive peppermint flavour.
While Taylors is attractively packaged, and produces a pleasant and interesting flavour, they cost three times as much as the very enjoyable Tesco Infusion, and for everyday use I would go for Tesco. But for something a little different now and again, or when there are guests, the Taylors Peppermint Leaf is worth having. The Twinings is a comparative failure.
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