Yerba Mate

Yerba Mate is said to have “the strength of coffee, the health benefits of tea, and the euphoria of chocolate”.

Yerba mate is a type of tea with powerful benefits for your health and weight. Here are 8 ways that drinking yerba mate can improve your health.

Yerba mate boasts an impressive 196 active compounds as compared to the 144 found in green tea. In fact, yerba mate has higher polyphenol and antioxidant counts than both green and black teas.Yerba mate,(Ilex paraguariensis) is processed much like a gree

Traditional South American beverage Yerba mate has become popular over the last few years for it's reputation of being a high caffeine drink that doesn't come with a jittery buzz. It is purported to be health-enhancing, but recent claims that it might be a carcinogen have devotees worried.

Yerba mate tea is a South American beverage made by steeping the ground leaves and stems of the yerba mate plant. Yerba mate is a central nervous system stimulant containing caffeine, but it also contains a number of other nutrients, including antioxidants, amino acids, polyphenols, vitamins and minerals. Yerba mate is touted as being a safe and effective nervous system stimulant with few side effects and many health benefits. Here are some of the benefits of drinking yerba mate tea.

Yerba mate (from Spanish [ˈʝeɾβa ˈmate]; Portuguese: erva-mate [ˈɛɾvɐ ˈmate] or [ˈɛɾvɐ ˈmatʃɪ]; Guarani: ka'a, IPA: [kaʔa] ) is a species of the holly genus (Ilex), with the botanical name Ilex paraguariensis A. St.-Hil.[1], named by the French botanist Auguste François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire.[2]

For years, we’ve all heard about the wonderful health benefits of green tea, whether it’s matcha green tea or other forms. But could yerba mate be even healthier than green tea?

Yerba Mate tea is an antioxidant rich tea with a host of benefits from liver supporting to weight loss friendly (but one major caution). Find out more...

Yerba mate has been showing up in a lot of energy drinks lately. These pre-brewed products offer many of the benefits of yerba mate in an easy-to-drink format. But as for me, I'm going to stick with loose yerba mate. Here are three of my main reasons why:  1. Whole Herb Goodness In addition to a ton of sugar, a lot of

The health benefits of yerba mate go beyond mental stimulation and energy boosting. With a powerful nutrient profile, yerba mate is more than just caffeine.

The Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific society in 1964 were interested in this healthy source of vitamins and did a thorough study of its properties. The investigators concluded "it is difficult to find a plant in any area of the world equal to mate in nutritional value" and that yerba mate contains "practically all of the vitamins necessary to sustain life." In addition, results from a study done by researchers at the University of Madrid assert a high content of mineral elements, especially K, Mg, and Mn, in mate. They considered those findings “to be of great relevance” to the nutritional value of mate infusions.

Yerba mate is a beverage made from the leaves and stems of a powerful rainforest tree, native to the subtropical rainforests of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. It was discovered centuries ago...