Yerba Mate is a great alternative to coffee. Yerba Mate has been used for centuries in South America and is really starting to get attention in the United States as a healthier substitute for coffee. Drinkers of Yerba Mate usually find they get more of an energy boost from Yerba Mate than from coffee, without any of the jitters or stomach and other health problems. Our Yerba Mate has 5 mg of caffeine compared to 137 mg in the same amount of ground coffee and has more antioxidants than many vegetables, improving your immune system.
Traditionally Yerba Mate is drank from a gourd. The gourd is filled 2/3 of the way full with Yerba Mate leaf and then topped off with hot water. The tea is then sucked up through a bombilla that blocks the leaf while letting the tea pass. The gourd is then passed to the next person who repeats the process. The original leaf will make many servings. Our Yerba Mate specimens are sold for legitimate ethnobotanical research purposes only and are not intended for human consumption! By ordering you are automatically agreeing to our terms and conditions.
This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 July, 2007.
