Pennyroyal
Hazard level: Low health concern
What is Pennyroyal?
Herb in the mint family, traditionally used in herbal tea blends; contains pulegone, caution advised in concentrated/essential-oil form.
Is Pennyroyal safe?
Pennyroyal is considered low concern by food-safety agencies.
Score impact:
No penalty on the FoodsScan score (FoodsScan scores run 0–100, where 100 is best.)
Found in 1 of 10,262 analysed products in the FoodsScan database.
Also known as
Pennyroyal is also known as flea mint, pennyroyal, mentha pulegium — these all refer to the same ingredient.
pennyroyal
mentha pulegium
flea mint
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