This may create a problem because peppermint, with its menthol and derivatives, is an effective digestive aid whereas spearmint, which contains mainly carvone, is not.
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The fruits, usually used whole, have a pungent, anise-like flavor and aroma that comes from essential oils, mostly carvone, limonene, and anethole.
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Carvone is found naturally in many essential oils, but is most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway ( " Carum carvi " ), spearmint ( " Mentha spicata " ), and dill.
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Samuel J . Danishefsky's synthesis of both ( + ) and (-) peribysin began with a Saegusa Ito oxidation of the Diels-Alder adduct of carvone and 3-trimethylsilyloxy-1, 3-butadiene to yield the enone below.
