Do you tend to follow the fashion in all, including drinks? Then it`s high time to surprise your guests by an unusual infused drink from the Southern Africa called Mate, traditional particularly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Southern states of Brazil, South of Chile, Syria and Lebanon.
The secret of its charm is hidden in a specific ceremony of brewing and drinking. Because of the fact that mate tea is drunk not from a cup, but a pumpkin (`calabash` in Argentinean) through a special silver straw called `bombilla` it’s really unusual.
Mate differs by its light arboreal aroma (evergreen Paraguayan ilex) and complicated sour-sweet taste with the whole range of nuances.
Mate qualities (the Indians provided it with some magic power) are in the following.
Due to caffeine this drink stimulates the weakened neural system and soothes the excited one, hair and skin look better. Mate contributes to the necessary amount of phosphorus accumulation for new cells and improves memory, raises immunity, purifies blood, it plays a stimulating role in male and female potency.
By the way, you`d better put no sugar into this kind of tea as it contains enough natural sugar. There is no dogma in it, because you know that everyone has the right to make mate his own way!