Senin, 27 Juni 2011

What is yerba maté?


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Why: We are trying to eat like cavemen, so I've been going to Whole Foods a lot and trying various expensive healthy-looking things. On the back of the Guayaki Yerba Mate $3 organic "Pure Mind" drink thing:
In 1996 after our co-founding Argentine partner passed us our first mate gourd, we immediately felt the balanced, nourishing and unparalleled energy.
In college, I had some Yerba Mate Latte All Night Samba tea that I skulled during all-nighters. I pictured the plant behind it to look like coffee beans, not like a gourd.

Answer: First, the yerba maté plant is a South American evergreen shrub related to holly. The fruit is a red drupe. (Do you know this word? Drupe? More importantly, do you know the word drupelet? Every little bubble on raspberry or blackberry is called a "drupelet." Impress your friends.) The leaves of the plant contain caffeine.
The drink maté (also chimarrão or cimarrón) is just the leaves of the yerba mate plant put inside a hollowed-out calabash gourd. You drink it with a silver straw.
And there are more modern versions that use modern materials. Progressive!
Source: Wikipedia

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They are crunchy as all get-out, super tasty, and sickeningly good for you.

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