Yerba mate tastes like a tea and hits you like a coffee—and yet, it's technically neither. If you're looking for a boost of energy that doesn't come from an espresso bean, look no further than this ...

Yerba mate is an herbal tea steeped in traditional South American culture. It may also offer health benefits. The slightly astringent tea is made from the leaves and stems of Ilex paraguariensis, an ...

Learn what yerba mate is and how it may support weight loss, lower inflammation, and benefit heart and gut health, with limits of current research.

When a study in her lab showed that mate tea drinkers saw a significant increase in the activity of an enzyme that raises HDL cholesterol while lowering LDL cholesterol, the scientist headed for ...

Yerba mate is a tea made from a plant—mate—that’s popular in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It contains about a third of the amount of caffeine that you’d get from a cup of coffee (30 mg versus 100 ...

I’m a diehard coffee drinker. Over the years I’ve experimented with quitting, even swapping in the latest fads to see if there’s truly anything better out there (remember that Matcha tea craze, anyone ...

Not many drinks can offer the health benefits of tea, the strength of coffee, and the joy of chocolate like South America’s super brew, yerba mate. Containing roughly as much caffeine as coffee, about ...

Teas from across the globe are becoming more and more popular in the U.S. One relative newcomer, yerba mate, is attracting fans for its allegedly jitter-free caffeine boost and high antioxidant ...

Some of the best footballers in the world are fans of the drink, but what is it? GOAL takes a look at the South American tea and how to make it Elite professional athletes are always looking for ways ...

Many business owners had to make difficult decisions during the height of the pandemic. For Wilmington-based Tama Tea, the three founders decided to close their cafes, including one in The Forum, and ...

In 1616, Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the governor of the Spanish province that included Buenos Aires, banned the population from drinking a green herbal drink called yerba mate. The governor had seen ...