Fortunately, java isn’t your only option if you want to get your day started off on the right foot. Here are some other fantastic options that you can try!

Matcha Tea

Matcha Tea, a variety of green tea that is made by taking young green tea leaves and grinding them into an antioxidant-rich powder and some caffeine, is a popular and trending choice nowadays. It’ll give you both a health and attention boost in the morning.

Coconut Water

Did you know that it’s very easy to become dehydrated and lose lots of electrolytes overnight? During the 7-8 hours that the typical person sleeps per night, your body doesn’t consume any liquids and needs more when you wake up in the morning. Coconut water will give you a boost of both electrolytes and water to get your body up to speed.

Mate

Mate is a popular drink in South America and is even more popular than coffee and tea in countries like Argentina and Uruguay. Why? This infusion drink gives you a boost in concentration and will have you focused and working great when you arrive at your job in the morning.

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This hot drink, originally from South America, is an infusion made from the dried leaves of a plant called yerba mate. The beverage produced by these leaves is beloved in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil, and has started to grow in popularity worldwide.

It can be tough to learn to make a mate the correct way, but it really isn’t that hard! So let’s go for it.

Ingredients

Mate gourd
A “bombilla” (a silver straw that filters)
Yerba mate
Cold water
Hot water (around 180 F), in a thermos

Instructions

Start off by filling your mate cup about 2/3rds of the way full with the yerba mate leaves.

Once you’ve done this, place your palm on top of the mate gourd and begin to gently shake the leaves back and forth a few times. This will help arrange the mate leaves into a “little mountain” that will form an incline inside of the cup once upright.

When you’ve set the cup down and the “little mountain” has formed, filling one half of the cup on an incline, add the silver “bombilla” to the empty side of the gourd, leaning against the “little mountain.”

Fill about half of the empty space with cold water. This will prevent hot water from burning the leaves and producing a bitter mate.

Next, fill the rest of the mate gourd with hot water.

Allow to steep for a couple minutes, and you’re ready to start sipping!

You can keep adding hot water until the beverage loses its flavor.

Enjoy!

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If so, this person was probably enjoying mate, which is a traditional South American beverage that is particularly popular and beloved in the countries of the Southern Cone region: Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, and some parts of Brazil.

Mate is a drink which is brewed from the leaves of the yerba mate shrub. The indigenous Guaraní and Tupí communities in what is now Paraguay were the first people to use the leaves from this shrub to make what is now known as mate.

The dried leaves from the plant are chopped and ground up into a powdery mixture and then placed in a pot along with hot, but never boiling, water, and the beverage steeps in a way that is very similar to tea.

After a few minutes of brewing time, the beverage is ready to drink. The traditional vessel for mate is a gourd-shaped vase, and people drink it through a straw which contains a filter so that the powdery dried leaves aren’t drunk.

While many people think that mate is bitter and tough to drink, others would simply say that it is an acquired taste, much like coffee. Its high caffeine content and levels of antioxidants are raved about by the many enthusiasts of the beverage.

Have you ever tried mate? What did you think?

The post Mate, South America’s Favorite Hot Beverage appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Fortunately, java isn’t your only option if you want to get your day started off on the right foot. Here are some other fantastic options that you can try!

Matcha Tea

Matcha Tea, a variety of green tea that is made by taking young green tea leaves and grinding them into an antioxidant-rich powder and some caffeine, is a popular and trending choice nowadays. It’ll give you both a health and attention boost in the morning.

Coconut Water

Did you know that it’s very easy to become dehydrated and lose lots of electrolytes overnight? During the 7-8 hours that the typical person sleeps per night, your body doesn’t consume any liquids and needs more when you wake up in the morning. Coconut water will give you a boost of both electrolytes and water to get your body up to speed.

Mate

Mate is a popular drink in South America and is even more popular than coffee and tea in countries like Argentina and Uruguay. Why? This infusion drink gives you a boost in concentration and will have you focused and working great when you arrive at your job in the morning.

The post Three Drinks to Kickstart Your Morning That Aren’t Coffee appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

This hot drink, originally from South America, is an infusion made from the dried leaves of a plant called yerba mate. The beverage produced by these leaves is beloved in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil, and has started to grow in popularity worldwide.

It can be tough to learn to make a mate the correct way, but it really isn’t that hard! So let’s go for it.

Ingredients

Mate gourd
A “bombilla” (a silver straw that filters)
Yerba mate
Cold water
Hot water (around 180 F), in a thermos

Instructions

Start off by filling your mate cup about 2/3rds of the way full with the yerba mate leaves.

Once you’ve done this, place your palm on top of the mate gourd and begin to gently shake the leaves back and forth a few times. This will help arrange the mate leaves into a “little mountain” that will form an incline inside of the cup once upright.

When you’ve set the cup down and the “little mountain” has formed, filling one half of the cup on an incline, add the silver “bombilla” to the empty side of the gourd, leaning against the “little mountain.”

Fill about half of the empty space with cold water. This will prevent hot water from burning the leaves and producing a bitter mate.

Next, fill the rest of the mate gourd with hot water.

Allow to steep for a couple minutes, and you’re ready to start sipping!

You can keep adding hot water until the beverage loses its flavor.

Enjoy!

The post Here’s How to Prepare a Perfect Mate appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

If so, this person was probably enjoying mate, which is a traditional South American beverage that is particularly popular and beloved in the countries of the Southern Cone region: Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, and some parts of Brazil.

Mate is a drink which is brewed from the leaves of the yerba mate shrub. The indigenous Guaraní and Tupí communities in what is now Paraguay were the first people to use the leaves from this shrub to make what is now known as mate.

The dried leaves from the plant are chopped and ground up into a powdery mixture and then placed in a pot along with hot, but never boiling, water, and the beverage steeps in a way that is very similar to tea.

After a few minutes of brewing time, the beverage is ready to drink. The traditional vessel for mate is a gourd-shaped vase, and people drink it through a straw which contains a filter so that the powdery dried leaves aren’t drunk.

While many people think that mate is bitter and tough to drink, others would simply say that it is an acquired taste, much like coffee. Its high caffeine content and levels of antioxidants are raved about by the many enthusiasts of the beverage.

Have you ever tried mate? What did you think?

The post Mate, South America’s Favorite Hot Beverage appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.