Traditional Yerba Mate Loose Tea
- 100% Organic, Rainforest and Shade-Grown Yerba Mate blended with Organic ingredients.
- Improves Digestion & Promotes Balance in the Body
- 196 Active compounds, 24 Vitamins & Minerals, 15 Amino Acids, Caffeine and Chlorophyll
- Provides Mental Clarity & Sustains Physical Energy
Product Ingredients
- Ingredients: Traditional Yerba Maté Loose Tea: 100% Organic Yerba Maté
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Traditional Yerba Mate Loose Tea
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- Publisher: Guayakí Yerba Mate
- Label: Guayakí Yerba Mate
- Studio: Guayakí Yerba Mate
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 5 reviews
- Sales Rank in Gourmet: #932
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Summary: yerba mate for life 2008-05-05
Comment: Everything about this tea it's sooooo true!!!! After just the 1st day, I feel well, energize, clarity of mind and I start having good night of sleep. If it wasn't so expensive, I could use it for the rest of my life...
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great flavor 2008-01-16
Comment: I really like the flavor of this tea. It actually makes me feel better. During the afternoon, this provides the perfect pick me up. It gives me energy. You can actually feel the medicinal properties in it. Enough said.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: The BEST Yerba Mate Hands Down 2007-11-09
Comment: There is no better Yerba Mate on the market. I have tried hundreds of brands and the quality just does not compare to Guayaki. I really like how they include stems with leaf. Mate is meant to be drunk this way and the stems add a significant amount of theophylline and theobromine and also add to the sweet and nutty flavor notes not found in other Mate's. I also appreciate that Guayaki uses only shade grown Mate - as it is meant to be. Sun grown mate lacks body and benefits.
I really like the companies sustainable business model. The company is true blue when it comes to their mission. Fairly traded products that allow the indigenous people to receive a fair wage for their work. Guayaki's reforestation efforts should be applauded.
Thank you for making such a fine product.
20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: WOW! Expensive. 2006-05-31
Comment: The tea I recived is about 50% woodie stuff (little sticks) and 50% green stuff.
The shipping was nearly the same price as the Tea, so I ended up paying $15.70 for 1/2 pound of Yerba Mate!!
After recieving the order, I got smart and googled Yerba Mate, and found lots of sites that offer a lot more tea for a lot less money, like $3.00/lb instead of the $30.00/lb that I paid. Also, some sites that offer genuine Argentinean brands, I think I'll try them next.
29 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Magic Potion from South America. 2004-12-05
Comment: Mate is actually not tea but a tea-like beverage originating from Argentina and Uruguay, and primarily consumed in those countries as well as in Paraguay and southern Brazil; brewed from the dried leaves and stemlets of the perennial Yerba Mate tree. Its name derives from the quichua word "mati" designating the gourd in which it is traditionally served. On average, 300,000 tons of Mate are produced each year.
In its consistency similar to green tea, mate has a distinctive, full, bittersweet flavor with a note of alfalfa, resembling that of tea but milder. Of the 196 volatile chemical compounds contained in Yerba Mate, 144 are also contained in tea. Knowing its manifold health benefits - among the plant's ingredients are the alkaloids xanthine, theophylline and theobromine as well as vitamins C, E, several B vitamins and numerous minerals - the South American Guarani Indians have traditionally used the plant for medicinal purposes, inter alia as a stimulant to the central nervous system, to promote mental, physical and cardiovascular activity, enhance resistance to fatigue, reduce fever, mitigate thirst and hunger, decrease blood pressure, and as a diuretic, laxative, purgative, sudorific, and antirheumatic.
Legend has it that knowledge of the infusion's powers was first imparted to a young Guarani woman and her father by a mysterious shaman, rewarding the woman's faithfulness in staying with her exhausted father while her tribe continued their search for arable land. In recent years, mate has become a cultural phenomenon throughout large parts of South America, and it is now gaining increased popularity in Northern America and Europe as well. In South America, sharing mate from the same container and the same straw (bombilla) is a symbol of closeness and friendship, both in a family and in other social contexts.
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