yerba mate

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sample

makes 10 cups

3oz

24¢ per cup

16oz

15¢ per cup

$29

teabags

15 full leaf pyramids

Long hailed in South American countries as a healthy, energizing social beverage, Yerba Mate is finding a new audience in North America. Notable is its ability to provide energy without the jitteriness suffered by coffee imbibers. Our yerba mate is hot air-dried and never smoked.

Its taste has been compared to that of green tea but with a more herbaceous, grassy character. Enjoyed hot or iced it can also be mixed with fruit juices for an energizing punch.

This herbal tea contains a moderate amount of caffeine.

Herbal Tea | High caffeine | Steep at 150° for 3-5 mins

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Teabags

Our teabags contain the same high-quality tea as our loose-tea offerings. Their pyramid shape gives the leaves plenty of room to unfurl and infuse, placing more flavor in each cup. Enjoy the superior flavor of gourmet tea with the convenience of a disposable bag.

teabags

15 full leaf pyramids

Lore

Most teas are prepared using four simple steps: add the tea leaves to water, steep the tea leaves, remove the tea leaves, enjoy. Mate (pronounced Mah-tay) is not most tea. Besides being made from the South American yerba mate plant (a type of holly) instead of the tea plant, it is also enjoyed with the leaves still in the cup. To prepare it, Mate afficionados first pack their cup with yerba mate twigs and leaves. They then add water before poking a filtered metal straw right into the leaves. The tea is then shared socially, passing from person to person.

Raw Honey for Herbals

A gentle, whisper-light character of this raw honey makes it a perfect sweetener for delicate herbals.

12oz

honey for garden herbals

Questions and Answers

Ask a question about yerba mate and have the Adagio Teas community offer feedback.

Compared to matcha, how much caffeine is in this?

Asked by Katrina Quoka
on October 18th, 2020

how are your yerba mates processed? Are they streamed or smoked?

Asked by Regina McCluster
on July 13th, 2020

how should you brew this to get the most out of the caffeine (amount, time, temperature, etc) ?

Asked by Rissa
on October 9th, 2020

is the yerba mate un-smoked

Asked by Joe Cawley
on December 20th, 2022

Hello, the previously answers on 's weren't really clear. The 'smoked' refers to the drying process at harvest- how is the plant dried/processed when harvested? Some plantations smoke the plant to dry it. Smoking is suspected to produce carcinoge

Asked by Debbie Crookston
on August 21st, 2023

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We import directly from the artisan farmers whose names and faces you'll find throughout our website. This makes our products fresher than those offered by the companies who use middlemen and brokers, and also less expensive. Here's a comparison of how much more you'd be paying by buying this elsewhere:

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