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Eco Teas Organic Yerba Mate Unsmoked, Loose, 16-Ounces (Pack of 3)

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Eco Teas Organic Yerba Mate Unsmoked, Loose, 16-Ounces (Pack of 3)

(11 customer reviews)

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Eco Teas Yerba Mate: We work in partnership with a family farm in Misiones, Argentina to offer the best yerba mate we've ever tasted. Our master farmers dry the yerba with a unique hot air process to achieve a robust, smoke-free taste. After aging, stems and powder are sifted out and returned to enrich the soil. Our yerba mate is a pure leaf product of exceptional quality. The Eco Teas Mission: Eco Teas is a small company in southern Oregon owned and run by three best friends. our mission is to offer certified organic sustainably-grown, fairly-traded world teas. Through conscious commerce, we work for personal and planetary health. In Argentina, we are helping our yerba mate farmers reclaim their ancestral land and cultivate it using sustainable permaculture techniques. We envision an organic, biodiverse, economically-productive landscape. What is Yerba Mate? Yerba Mate is a holly tree native to the rainforests of South America. The tea-like beverage made from its leaves is called mate. Mate is the national drink of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. People from all walks of life have enjoyed its beneficial properties for centuries. Sipping mate with friends and family is an energizing, healthful daily ritual. Mate stimulation: What do you get when you combine half the caffeine of coffee with a powerful dose of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients? You get an energizing boost known in South America as mateine. Mateine raises your whole metabolism for balanced mental and physical stimulation. Antioxidant chart: Rooibos tea: 3,132 ORAChydro; Eco Teas Yerba Mate: 5,102; Green tea: 2,701; Black tea: 2,947. Caffeine meter: Rooibos tea: 0 mg; Green tea: 30 mg; Black tea: 50 mg; Yerba Mate: 65 mg; Coffee: 135 mg. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any disease. USDA organic. Certified organic by Oregon Tilth (OTCO), USDA accredited. Product of Argentina.

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Product Details

Product Weight:	48.0 Ounces
Package Length:	9.6 inches
Package Width:	7.9 inches
Package Height:	2.8 inches
Package Weight:	2.9 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 11 reviews

Features

Healthy balanced energy
Nutritious and antioxidant-rich
Raises metabolism
Elevates mood
Supports the immune system

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:

Love the product, amazed @ amazon pricing Jan 28, 2010 By A. Datta
We regularly take Yerba mate as our tea and this particular brand is what we consume. It is easily available at our local supermarkets.

I would like to see subscribe and save of amazon become more popular and useful as it allows us to simplify things. But boy, someone at Amazon needs to listen to the customers and understand that the customers are educated.

Many many of your grocery prices are silly when compared with local market prices in US. This product is a perfect example. It sells at normal MSRP for $9.99/lb in Austin TX in WholeFoods or SunHarvest, yet amazon price is $16.67/lb for a bulk pack? In fact this trend is true in many of the departments. Amazon needs to start showing prices that are real rather than try to "show" a big discount. A good mindset to follow would be that of Costco/Sams rather than a shady pawn show.

Fix it, and amazon's subscription business for groceries & household utilities will take off like you wouldn't belove it. I for one would be happy to shift *all* of my reoccurring, non perishable food supply to Amazon.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Awesome product, ridiculous price. Nov 06, 2009 By T. Sparks "T. Sparks"
I ordered the three pack bundle on August 18, 2009 and loved it. It lasted me a long time and I drink mate almost everyday. Good taste, good sized leaves for the bombilla, organic, overall awesome stuff. However, when I ordered the 3-pack it cost me $18.28 exactly, good deal. The price now wavers around $50. What's the dealeo? I'm flabbergasted. I was looking forward to ordering again but now I'm totally going with a better price.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

I found Unsmoked mate! Nov 14, 2010 By T. Noah
Ive enjoyed the traditional mates, and was recently looking for unsmoked mate that does not contain the Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (carcenogens) found in most mates that are smoke dried rather than air dried like this mate is.
that may be linked to mouth and lung cancers. Ive heard drinking a strong cup of traditional mate is equal to smoking 3 cigarettes, or was it 3 packs? I know that if i drink more than 1 cup I get sores in my mouth.

It doesnt taste as strong as smoked mate- I got used to the rich smokey taste of that and was a bit let down by the taste of this, but its still an excellent high quality mate, pure leaf with no powder or stems, and I enjoy it more now knowing that its much healthier for me.

Thank you eco teas!

4 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Why not to buy Yerba Mate with english on it. Nov 07, 2011 By NeutraL-GreY
Someone I knew gave me a bag of this because they knew that I love mate unfortunately this is the worst mate I have ever had. The stuff is not even smoked which is weird because that has been part of the curing process ever since mate has been drank. The best way I could describe the taste of this mate is if you had a pile of really moist grass (like if you cut your lawn) and let it ferment in a dark warm room and then brewed it. Not good.

6 of 8 found the following review helpful:

lame, big disappointment... Nov 15, 2010 By Alonso
I ran out of mate, and have been drinking mate for a long time. I ended up picking this up at the local Co-op. Well I gotta say this tastes horrible. I have been drinking mate for a long time as I lived in Argentina, and this tastes nothing like normal mate. I understand the idea behind this mate, and the better health reasons behind having it unsmoked and organic, which organic and unsmoked sounds like an amazing idea, especially since I prefer organic everything! The problem is that this mate tastes nothing like normal mate, and really doesn't have a good taste. There are a lot of Americans who when they drink mate out of a gourd and bombilla who think that it tastes like dirt. Well this mate is definitely a dirt earthy taste. It tastes nothing like a good crop of mate, this is highly agreed by my Argentinian friend who ended up throwing his purchase in the garbage just after 2 gourds full, and eventually I tried to struggle through this yerba, but in the end it was just too much for me. Waste of money, and the many Argentinians that are friends of the family want to stay away from this mate, when even they would prefer to drink organic as well. Sorry eco teas, but your crafty wording, and healthy image doesn't always mean it is good. I mean just because you have a pretty label, and you take out all the stalk from your teas does not mean they are truly better. The stalk is fundamentally part of yerba mate, as an image and why waste the other part of the plant right? For an alternative to smoked mate and non organic there are better ones out there....

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