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by innagadadavida 1290 days ago
It has 27g of sugar per drink. are there any options to not have sugar or sweeteners? I was hoping at least this company will be more health conscious.
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Yerba Mate is brewed, like tea. You can buy the herb and brew it yourself, like loose tea. Yerba Mate is not a company, it's a drink with three thousand of years of history. The reason many energy drink companies add so much sugar is that it's extremely bitter. I like mine bitter, and many drink it straight.
I certainly wouldn't call it "extremely" bitter, but I guess it might be for you. To me, it's somewhat bitter but much less bitter than coffee. There's a lot of genetic variation in human bitter taste receptors, and different foods/beverages just taste inherently different to different people, before people even begin to develop preferences and acquire acquired tastes.
Acquired taste, just like coffee or beer. They don't need sugar.
That's right. I prefer it with a bit of sweetner, though. And the last time I bought online I got an orange flavored yerba from a brand called CBSé - probably the best one I've tried yet. This brand has lots of different flavors of yerba, it's excellent. The place I discovered it is Pampa Direct, here https://pampadirect.com/mate-yerba-mate/
Yerba Mate doesn't have any sugar in it. You might be looking at a packaged drink, but Yerba Mate itself is nothing more than a tea-like herb.
Maybe you mean the club mate drink popular in the hacker community? (Incidentally it displaced jolt cola in that role)