Re: What about ORGANIC Yerba Maté ???

Apr 28, 2004 2 Replies


I´m new in yerba maté, in fact I started drinking it only 6 months ago


> by chance. I bought some well known brands and I thought they were ok
> til I tasted one which was organic. The difference is big in terms of
> taste and in terms of health. It´s said that "industrial" tea
> producers don´t let the leaves of the yerba dry naturally; they dry
> them artificially so they can get them ready to use faster. I can tell
> from my own experience ( I don´t know if the previous statement is
> true or false ) that organic maté has definitly no acidity at all and
> the taste is much, much better. It´s not easy to find here in the
> States but I strongly recommend it. You can actually order it from the
> same website I did,
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, they were very
> helpful and I learnt a lot from their site. I hope this helps !

"It's not easy to find here in the States"?? The NNTP-Posting-Host for your message is 200.63.140.229, which resolves to Argentina (Buenos Aires in particular, it seems).


Oh, and hey, the whois info for mymateworld.com is


Registrant: My Mate World Inc Lanin 189 Buenos Aires 1269 Argentina


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Administrative Contact: Administration, Domain snipped-for-privacy@paginas-web.com.ar Lanin 189 Buenos Aires 1269 Argentina


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What a load of crap! There may be other reasons why some people want organically grown products but there is no discernible difference in taste between organic and non-organic mate. I have had both enough times to know.

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