Mint

MenthaAlso called menta and mentha

Mint is an herb whose leaves are used in cooking. Cooks use the leaves to garnish and season dishes, and pair them with lamb.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Herbs & spices
Part used: Leaf
Family: Lamiaceae
Cooked most in: Asia, Europe
Top country: Iran
Dishes: 3 in the catalogue

Photo: Commonists · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use mint

Typical ways to cook or use it

Garnish
Season

Goes well with

lamb meat

Shopping

Choosing and storing mint

Keeping it

Fridge · whole

Around the world

Where mint is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use mint. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia2
Europe1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Afghanistan 1
Iran 1
Italy 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list mint among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with mint

2 of the 3 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Kashk e badamjan
Iran
Afghan salad
Afghanistan

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include mint.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: mint in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None

Around the world

What mint is called

Names in 117 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Audibertia · Preslia · Yerba mota · Hierbahuerto
French
menthe · menthe verte · menthe poivrée · menthe marocaine
Italian
Menta romana
Portuguese
Levante miuda · Hortelãs · Levante-miúda · Mentha citrata
German
Minzen · Basilikumminze · Nudelminze · Braune Minze
Dutch
munt · Edelmunt · Gembermunt
Greek
Μέντα · Ηδύοσμος
Turkish
Nane
Russian
мята
Polish
mięta
Arabic
نعناع · النعناع · نعنع
Persian
نعنا · نعناع · نعناء

Show all 117 languages

Afrikaans
Kruisement
Albanian
nenexhik
Amharic
እባን
Aramaic
ܢܢܥܐ · ܢܥܢܥ
Armenian
դաղձ · անանուխ
azb
نانه
Azerbaijani
Nanə
Bangla
মেন্থা · পুদিনা
Bashkir
Мөртлөк
Basque
Menda
Belarusian
Мята
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
мята
Bosnian
Metvica
Breton
Bent
Bulgarian
мента
Burmese
ပူဒီနာ
Cantonese
薄荷
Catalan
mmenta · Mint
cdo
Bŏk-hò̤
Cebuano
menta
Central Kurdish
نەعنا
Cheyenne
Móxêšéne
Chinese
薄荷属 · 薄荷
Chuvash
Пĕтнĕк
Cornish
menta
Corsican
mente · mintrastu · puleghju
Croatian
Metvica
Czech
máta
Danish
mynte
Egyptian Arabic
نعناع
Erzya
Мятатикше
Esperanto
Mento
Estonian
münt · Pulegium · Preslia
Filipino
Malipukon · Mint · Yerba bwena · Yerbang mabuti
Finnish
mintut
Galician
Menta
Georgian
პიტნა
Guarani
Menta
Haitian Creole
Mant
Hausa
Na'a-Na'a
Hebrew
נענע · מנתה · מנטה · יועזר
Hindi
पुदिना
Hungarian
menta
Icelandic
Myntur · Minta
Ido
Minto
Indonesian
mentha · Mint · Peppermint
Irish
mismín
Japanese
ハッカ属 · 女無天 · 薄荷葉 · ハッカ油
Javanese
Mentha · Merdinah (Banyumasan)
Kabardian
БэрэтӀинэ · БэрэтӀи́нэ
Kabyle
Tamersa
Kashmiri
پُدنہٕ
Kazakh
Жалбыз
Korean
박하속
Kurdish
Pûjan
Kyrgyz
Эгилме жалбыз
Latvian
mētras
Literary Chinese
薄荷
Lithuanian
Mėta
Macedonian
нане
Malagasy
Solila
Malay
Pudina
Malayalam
കർപ്പൂരതുളസി · Camphor Basil · കർപ്പൂര തുളസി · പുതിന
Maltese
nagħniegħ
Mazanderani
نعنا
Mingrelian
ჸვალმინთა
nah
Caxtillān epazōtl
Neapolitan
Amenta
Northern Frisian
Münten
Northern Sami
minta
Norwegian Bokmål
mynteslekta · Mynte
Norwegian Nynorsk
mynteslekta
Occitan
Menta
Odia
ପୋଦିନା
Old English
Minte
Ossetic
Битъына
Punjabi
ਪੁਦੀਨਾ
Romanian
Mentă
Samogitian
Mietra
Serbian
нана · Мента
Serbian (Cyrillic)
нана · мента
Serbian (Latin)
Metvica · Nana
Serbian (Latin)
nana · menta
Sicilian
Amenta
Simplified Chinese
薄荷属
Simplified Chinese (China)
薄荷属
Sinhala
මිංචි ගණය
Slovak
mäta
Slovenian
meta
Sundanese
Mentha
Swedish
myntasläktet · Mynta · Mint · Myntor
Tajik
Пудина
Talysh
Nənof
Tamil
புதினா
Tatar
Бөтнек
Telugu
మెంథా
Thai
มินต์
Traditional Chinese
薄荷屬
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
薄荷屬
Ukrainian
м'ята
Upper Sorbian
Mjetlička · Mjatwički
Uyghur
يالپۇز
Uzbek
Yalpiz
Venetian
menta · ménta
Veps
Mänt
Vietnamese
Chi Bạc hà
Welsh
Mintys
Western Mari
Пӹтньӹк
Wolof
naana
Wu Chinese
薄荷
Yiddish
מענטא · מענטאַל · מענטאל
Zhuang
Bozhoz

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q47859

Photos