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Marjoram

The Essentials

Freshly cut sweet marjoram stems laid side by side on a dark slate board, each tipped with pale green knot-like flower buds
Sweet marjoram is known by its knot-shaped buds — softer and sweeter than its cousin oregano.

Sweet, calming mint-family herb at home in tea and food.

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Traditionally used for headaches, anxious nerves, and gas.

Often confused with oregano: marjoram is softer, sweeter, more aromatic.

Generally very safe in culinary amounts. Ease back the essential oil (the concentrated aromatic oil of the plant) in pregnancy.

Marjoram has brought its soft fragrance to Mediterranean kitchens and Persian apothecaries for over two millennia. Dioscorides and Avicenna both wrote about its warming, calming nature. Today, researchers are exploring its antioxidant volatile oil (terpinen-4-ol, sabinene hydrate) for blood pressure, anxiety, and digestive comfort.

Known to botanists as Origanum majorana.