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Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021)

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Post by Projectiboga »

petre wrote: post #102
penumbral wrote: post #63

Coming from an Argentine family Yerba Mate is great. I'm American but have been drinking it frequently since the time I was 14 or so. I drank tons in college but took a multi-year break a few years down the line due to reflux issues that it made worse. Those are some things to look out for - heartburn, sinusitis, negative changes in mood, tension headaches. I notice that there is a huge difference between Yerba Mate…

I'm a tea drinker (green Chinese types like Zhen Mei are mainly my thing) and occasionaly also consume Yerba Mate. Rather than saturating a high amount of the dried plant with hot water and drinking it with a traditional silver straw like people do in South America, I just prepare a normal infusion like one does with tea, with a metal straining net infuser leaving it for four minutes. It's easier on the stomach this…

I do a double brew where I steep the mate first, let it sit in partial quart bottles, then I brew a soup pot of Oolong tea and strain after 3 minutes I then add the tea to the mate as a kind of double brew. I may now strain the tea-mate combo after a shorter period. I still need to read the article.

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Post by darksaints »

innagadadavida wrote: post #115
penumbral wrote: post #63

Coming from an Argentine family Yerba Mate is great. I'm American but have been drinking it frequently since the time I was 14 or so. I drank tons in college but took a multi-year break a few years down the line due to reflux issues that it made worse. Those are some things to look out for - heartburn, sinusitis, negative changes in mood, tension headaches. I notice that there is a huge difference between Yerba Mate…

It has 27g of sugar per drink. are there any options to not have sugar or sweeteners? I was hoping at least this company will be more health conscious.

Yerba Mate doesn't have any sugar in it. You might be looking at a packaged drink, but Yerba Mate itself is nothing more than a tea-like herb.

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Post by serioussecurity »

innagadadavida wrote: post #115
penumbral wrote: post #63

Coming from an Argentine family Yerba Mate is great. I'm American but have been drinking it frequently since the time I was 14 or so. I drank tons in college but took a multi-year break a few years down the line due to reflux issues that it made worse. Those are some things to look out for - heartburn, sinusitis, negative changes in mood, tension headaches. I notice that there is a huge difference between Yerba Mate…

It has 27g of sugar per drink. are there any options to not have sugar or sweeteners? I was hoping at least this company will be more health conscious.

Yerba Mate is brewed, like tea. You can buy the herb and brew it yourself, like loose tea. Yerba Mate is not a company, it's a drink with three thousand of years of history. The reason many energy drink companies add so much sugar is that it's extremely bitter. I like mine bitter, and many drink it straight.

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Post by ibatindev »

petre wrote: post #102
penumbral wrote: post #63

Coming from an Argentine family Yerba Mate is great. I'm American but have been drinking it frequently since the time I was 14 or so. I drank tons in college but took a multi-year break a few years down the line due to reflux issues that it made worse. Those are some things to look out for - heartburn, sinusitis, negative changes in mood, tension headaches. I notice that there is a huge difference between Yerba Mate…

I'm a tea drinker (green Chinese types like Zhen Mei are mainly my thing) and occasionaly also consume Yerba Mate. Rather than saturating a high amount of the dried plant with hot water and drinking it with a traditional silver straw like people do in South America, I just prepare a normal infusion like one does with tea, with a metal straining net infuser leaving it for four minutes. It's easier on the stomach this…

We also do that when you have to serve mate for a large crowd and it receives the name of ´Mate Cocido´ => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_cocido

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Post by opinologo »

bovermyer wrote: post #100

After reading the whole thing, here's my summary: Yerba mate reduces cholesterol, encourages fat loss, improves heart health, and has similar stimulative effects to coffee. However, the method of its preparation is important, as some varieties can increase the risk of certain types of cancer. Drink it cold in moderate daily amounts for the best effect.

70C / 158F would be enough. According to the paper, it is not different than coffee or tea when it comes to the risk effects drinking it hot

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Post by gosukiwi »

drukenemo wrote: post #94
gosukiwi wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Playadito is great. There's a kind of Yerba Mate that is easier on the liver and stomach now called Cachamai, and there's some alternatives too. It normally comes in with extra flavors such as Mint, Orange, etc. I'm Argentinian, been drinking Mate daily (sometimes several times a day) since I was ~18 (32 now) and that Yerba is great :)

Are there negatives effects on the liver from consuming mate?

You can have dried lips caused by the liver (at least that's my understanding), but that's if you consume a lot, daily, for a long time

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Post by pantalaimon »

ahmadnoid wrote: post #50

Fun fact: Yerba Mate is widely used in Syria and Lebanon due to trade between Latin America and the Levant. I grew up drinking Yerba Mate Tea almost every day.

Mate Softdrinks are ubiquitous in Germany, it’s fueling the IT industry and students.
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