Chocolate Vanilla Mate

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Our Chocolate Vanilla Mate is sure to please. The fall like flavor not only tastes good, but is packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant rich ingredients.

Chocolate Vanilla Mate
Ingredients: Yerba mate, cacao nibs and natural flavorings

Yerba Matéis an acquired taste since infusions tends to be bitter, astringent, and unpleasant at first, like black coffee. Native to Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, where it’s made into a thick paste and drunk, hot, from a hollowed-out gourd (“mate” in Spanish) through a tube (“bombilla”) with a filter at one end to screen out the sediment. In Paraguay, it’s also brewed into a cold beverage called teréré, which is drunk from a hollowed-out cow horn. The leaves are sold either green or roasted; the latter have a pleasant toasty flavor. Rich in vitamin C, polyphenols, and caffeine—a cup contains about as much caffeine as a cup of green tea. Today, Mate is cultivated extensively in Argentina where this drink is a social event that can last for several hours.

What is to be known of Matéis that it is a drink of sociability and good health, as it is first and foremost a stimulant: Containing all three Xanthine stimulants—caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine that are found in varying amounts of coffee, tea, and chocolate.