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The energy drinks contain either 3 mg or 6 mg of nicotine as well as caffeine from yerba mate.—Sarah Todd, STAT, 20 Feb. 2026 Experts recommend stopping yerba mate two weeks before surgery.—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2026 Golden retrievers of all ages — from excitable puppies playing in the mud to more mature canines roaming in Santa hats and fairy costumes — filled the park as owners sat drinking yerba mate, a typical Argentine drink, and taking pictures.—Miguel Lo Bianco, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025 The path opened to a grove of yerba mate trees, about eight feet tall with dense, leathery leaves that smelled like grass.—Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025 While yerba mate can deliver a faster jolt, green tea offers a steadier, more balanced lift.—Danielle Zickl, Health, 14 Nov. 2025 Natural elements like snail mucin and yerba mate point to growing awareness of natural and botanical ingredients.—Vogue Business Team, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2025 The Good Molecules eye gel is packed with powerful ingredients, including yerba mate, a plant full of antioxidants that protects against UV light,1 caffeine, hyaluronic acid, and more, to wake up your skin.—Katrina Cossey, Parents, 21 Aug. 2025 But with very few options to source yerba mate that was shade-grown–a non-negotiable–its founders built a network of farmers to begin transitioning their farms from conventional agriculture to regenerative and worked with indigenous tribes to build out regenerative yerba mate farms for them.—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Word History
Etymology
American Spanish yerba mate, from yerba herb + mate maté