Having a delicious cup of English breakfast tea is a daily occurrence for most people. But studies have ... The experts said: “Drinking mate, an infusion of the herb ilex paraguariensis, is ...

A 2003 review of all existing studies on yerba mate, published in the journal Head and Neck, confirmed that people who regularly drink large amounts of the tea -- as much as a liter or more each ...

Herbal yerba mate tea contains roughly as much caffeine as coffee, about 80 milligrams per cup. The drink itself dates back to the pre-Columbian era when the local Guaraní people in Paraguay ...

The Indigenous Guaraní people of Paraguay, the first to consume yerba mate, considered the drink a gift from the gods. “Mate was used in communication with the divinities and as a medicine ...

Yet another drink is being touted on TikTok as “nature’s Ozempic.” Yerba mate has so many people saying it’s helped them lose weight that it’s kind of hard to ignore—some are even ...

A cheap canned drink available at nearly every ... a 2015 South Korean study found overweight people who took oral supplements of Yerba mate for three months lost about one-third of their weight.

Yerba mate has been enjoyed for centuries by people across South America. It is traditionally enjoyed hot with a filtered straw in a hollow gourd, while other people prefer drinking it over ice.

"The Jesuits initially forbade the drinking of mate when they saw the Guaraní people sometimes consuming too much and vomiting. But then the Jesuits realised they could commercialise yerba mate ...