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White Tea

This is green tea that is produced using the very tips only, which appear white when dry, and is generally regarded as the rarest of all teas. It has a very, very delicate flavor and had the least amount of caffeine of all teas. It is usually combined with flowers such as chrysanthemum.

Yerba Mate

This delicious drink comes from a member of the holly/coffee family, and is highly nutritious and tonifying to the body. Mate does contain caffeine, mateine, B-vitamins and other natural constituents. This product comes from South America, usually Argentina or Paraguay, and can be found green or roasted, and flavored with spices or natural fruit oils. Generally mate is drunk sweetened in a pear shaped gourd called a mate, and sipped through a metal filtering straw called a bombilla. Mate now also comes in tea bags for convenience.