Study Buddy Yerba Mate

Study Buddy Yerba Mate: Lovely fruit notes enhance this mate blend. Contains caffeine without the jittery feeling from coffee. Ingredients: Apple pieces, Hibiscus petals, Green Mate leaves, Rosehip pieces, Rosemary leaves, Natural flavors. Information: Also known as Paraguay tea and yerba mate; mate is an herb prepared from the leaves of a South America evergreen shrub, Illex paraguayensis, a relative of the common holly. The leaves are oval and about 6 inches long. Flowers of the plant are small and white. The fruit appears in small clusters of tiny red berries growing close to the stems of the plant. Like guarana and yopo, mate is rich in caffeine and was used as a caffeine beverage source by the native population of Latin America centuries before the European settlers arrived to establish coffee plantations.Yerba Matte is called “The drink of the gods” by many of the indigenous people of South America who have brewed it for centuries. It was however, a people who believed in a diffe