Mint has both edible and medicinal functions, with the main edible parts being the stems and leaves, which can also be taken in juice.

Per 100g of dried mint, it contains 9.6g of water, 6.8g of protein and 31.1g of fibre, providing 870.7 kJ of calories.

There are many uses for mint.

1.To get rid of fishy smells

Mint in the usual dessert or something to eat when there is a strange effect, such as in the pickle some fishy things heavy.

You can put some mint, so you can remove the fishy taste, so that the food taste better.

2.Tepel mosquitoes and insects, anti-inflammatory and anti-itch

Usually if it is injured, you can use mint light anti-inflammatory, to summer, keep a pot of mint indoors and repel the role of mosquitoes.

If bitten by mosquitoes, mint mashed in the bitten place can play the effect of stopping the itch.

3.Help sleep

If you keep a pot of mint in the bedroom, it emits the mint scent is very helpful to sleep, can effectively improve the quality of sleep.

You will also feel refreshed and in a good mood when you wake up in the morning.

For consumption, mint can be used as a flavouring and spice, as well as with wine and tea.

In addition, mint can be used to make honey, which is dark amber in colour and has a strong mint-like smell.

Given all these benefits, how should mint be grown?

Firstly, mint likes loose, breathable soil that is not waterlogged.

You can use peat soil with some vermiculite, perlite and well-rotted organic fertiliser to provide your own nutrient soil, or you can buy finished peat nutrient soil.

The majority of plants are light lovers and mint is no exception, as adequate sunlight is good for chlorophyll and mint brain production, making it greener and more flavourful.

In the summer, the sun needs to be shaded so as not to burn the leaves, but in other seasons you can let go of the sun and be bold, the more sun you get, the better you look.

Finally, mint likes a warm and humid growing environment, mint lack of water will appear curly leaves, dry, serious even directly the whole pot withered, so must not let the mint appear dehydrated.

Mint is a plant that gets more and more lush the more you cut it, and the cut leaves can be eaten.

For example to make strawberry mint water.

1. Wash the strawberries, pick the mint, rinse it well and finally rinse it again with drinking water.

2. Cut the strawberries into thin slices about 3mm thick (so that you can still eat them after soaking in the water), slit the mint leaves and put them into the prepared water.

3. Put the water with the ingredients in the fridge for 5 hours and drink.