Spearmint
Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. Last updated on Jul 2, 2024.
Excipient (pharmacologically inactive substance)
What is it?
Spearmint is a natural or artificial flavor commonly used in medicine, chewing gum and toothpaste. A flavor, as used in the pharmaceutical industry for inactive ingredients, refers to natural or artificial tastes, which may include fragrances and colors of the flavoring. Flavors are used for orally consumed products such as syrups, chewable tablets, suspensions, or gums that impart beneficial therapeutic effect, as well.
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations describes a natural flavorant as: the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.
Artificial flavors include any substance, the function of which is to impart flavor, which is not derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof.[1]
Some examples of medications containing Spearmint
- Aurovela Fe 1/20 ethinyl estradiol 20 mcg / norethindrone acetate 1 mg
- Charlotte 24 Fe ethinyl estradiol 20 mcg / norethindrone acetate 1 mg
- Ethinyl Estradiol and Norethindrone ethinyl estradiol 0.035 mg / norethindrone 0.4 mg
- Ethinyl Estradiol and Norethindrone (Chewable) 0.025 mg / 0.8 mg
- Ethinyl Estradiol and Norethindrone (Chewable) 0.025 mg / 0.8 mg
- Ethinyl Estradiol and Norethindrone Acetate ethinyl estradiol 20 mcg / norethindrone acetate 1 mg
- Femcon Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.035 mg / norethindrone 0.4 mg
- Generess Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.025 mg / norethindrone 0.8 mg
- Generess Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.025 mg / norethindrone 0.8 mg
- Layolis Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.025 mg / norethindrone 0.8 mg
- Layolis Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.025 mg / norethindrone 0.8 mg
- Lo Loestrin Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.01 mg / norethindrone acetate 1 mg
- Microgestin Fe 1.5/30 ethinyl estradiol 0.03 mg / norethindrone 1.5 mg
- Microgestin Fe 1/20 ethinyl estradiol 0.02 mg / norethindrone 1 mg
- Nexesta Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.035 mg / norethindrone
- Nexesta Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.035 mg / norethindrone
- Spritam 750 mg
- Spritam 1000 mg
- Spritam 500 mg
- Spritam 250 mg
References
- [1]The Code of Federal Regulations. Title 21. Food and Drugs. Vol. 2. 2010-04-01. 101.22. Foods; labeling of spices, flavorings, colorings and chemical preservatives.
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