Yerba mate：market trend and benefits

Yerba Mate is in South America

In South America, yerba mate specialty shops are as common as coffee shops are in North America and Europe, and drinking yerba mate has deep cultural roots. In addition to being a beverage, mate is also used as a tonic, diuretic, and to relieve fatigue, suppress appetite, etc., but also used to treat a variety of gastrointestinal injuries and diseases, but also because of its intestinal cleansing effect, often used to treat constipation. In Brazil, mate is often used to improve digestive tract problems, kidney colic, neuralgia, depression, fatigue, and obesity. The paste of Holly leaves is also used to improve skin ulcers (mainly due to its high tannin content).

In addition to South America, mate tea also has a very long history of use worldwide.

In Europe, it is used to lose weight, relieve physical fatigue and neurodepression, improve rheumatic pain and psychogenic and fatigue-related headaches.

In Germany, it has become a very popular weight loss product. Germany has a monograph devoted to the introduction of mate tea, but also approved the use of mate tea for relieving mental and physical fatigue.

In France, mate is approved for use as a nutritional supplement, as an aid to weight loss, and as a diuretic. It also appears in the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia (1996) for fatigue relief, weight reduction, and headaches.

In the United States, James Balch, M.D., recommends the use of mate for arthritis, headaches, hemorrhoids, edema, obesity, fatigue, stress, constipation, allergies, and hay fever, among other things, noting that it "purifies the blood, regulates the nervous system, slows aging, stimulates nerves, controls appetite, stimulates corticosterone production, And is thought to enhance the therapeutic effects of other herbs."

Including in recent years, more popular weight management, antioxidant, sports energy, hangover, sleep health, etc., these directions can be used as product applications, so the function of mate tea is very comprehensive, can be said to be a functional food raw materials.

Weight management

The main reason is that the mate in mate tea, which is different from caffeine or tea polyphenols, it is a mixture of caffeine, theobromine and theophylline, can speed up the body's metabolism and stimulate brain activity

antioxidant

Many studies have shown that mate has significant antioxidant activity. Its high antioxidant properties are mainly due to the rich polyphenols in yerba mate leaves, especially caffeine derivatives, which have strong antioxidant properties. Yerba mate leaves have been shown to inhibit lipid peroxidation, especially low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation.

Good for sleep

Another amazing thing about mate tea is that it can refresh without affecting sleep, and even help you sleep.