Peppermint Factory
4 — Peppermint is another crop that would probably be a useful addition to the agriculture of New Zealand. Peppermint products are an important export to the United States from Hokkaido, and more than 4000 acres are used for growing the 28 main varieties (each with a different flavour). Peppermint oils for flavouring (there is no satisfactory substitute), mint crystals, and. menthol are the products. At Bihoro, in the largest peppermint factory in the world, we walked with . streaming eyes and noses and gasping for breath, through the distilling rooms; and in the laboratory when we smelt the pungent odours of the different oils in their bottles famous trade-names immediately came to mind-with the oils for toothpaste and chewing gum particularly we could recognise at once not only the brands they were used for but also the different varieties of those brands... +
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 19
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143Peppermint Factory New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 19
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