some of them medicinal, some of them for aromatherapy...some of them for commercial uses like gum and toothpaste flavor and mint chocolate chip ice cream.......all of them are good for something....most of them good for several things....applemint is a holistic cure for nausea....pineapplemint goes good with ham.... and there are dozens of other uses for different varieties and different ways to harvest them...me and my best friend whos doing this with me recieved somewhere to the tune of 10,000 seeds today....and then we looked at the amount of space we had to plant it in......**** me man....talk about getting in over your head....we just wanted to plant mint for something easy and fun to do....we never realized that we should have entire fields of it... because depending on the variety, there are different ways to harvest it ....with different varieties a hundred yards apart to prevent cross pollination...damn man...all my buddy wanted was some mint tea...all i wanted was some mint extract to use in baking goods....now if we wanna follow it through to the end we gotta buy property to farm.....honestly im really not a farmer im just a horror fanatic...but we like to follow things through to the end...