Nature's Way **Peppermint Leaf** is a gentle, traditional digestive herb — 700mg of dried leaf per two-capsule serving — soothing for an everyday upset or gassy stomach, but not a measured clinical dose. This is the same plant you'd steep in an after-dinner tea, valued for centuries to settle digestion.
The strong clinical evidence for peppermint comes from enteric-coated peppermint oil, where concentrated menthol reaches the gut intact to relax intestinal muscle and ease IBS pain and bloating. Dried leaf delivers only a small, unmeasured fraction of that menthol, so those IBS trial results don't carry over to this product.
If you want a calming herbal aid for everyday digestion, this works. But if you're targeting IBS specifically, an enteric-coated peppermint oil capsule is the form with the clinical backing.
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Ingredients (1)
Peppermint
100%Dose/day
2100 mg
Target
180–675 mg
Form
Not listed
Other Ingredients (2)
Magnesium StearateLubricant
A salt of stearic acid used as a lubricant in tablet and capsule production
Capsule ShellCapsule
Generic capsule shell where the label does not specify the material. Common materials are hypromellose (HPMC) for vegetarian capsules and gelatin for traditional capsules — both are GRAS-listed and safe. Fish gelatin and pullulan variants also exist.
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