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"The name “MATE”, pronounced Ma-Tay, comes from yerba maté, a species of holly native to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are used to
by ferrari8608 11y ago
"The name “MATE”, pronounced Ma-Tay, comes from yerba maté, a species of holly native to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are used to make infusions and a beverage called mate."
Neat! And here I've been pronouncing it like the English word "mate".
- tosseraccount 11y agoThere's also "mate de coca", which has a different active ingredient than caffeine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_tea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_tea
- EuAndreh 11y agoI'm from South America and I didn't know this either, and I also pronounced like English word "mate", lol
- userbinator 11y agoThe beverage, when consumed hot, is also classified as a probable carcinogen: http://www.inchem.org/documents/iarc/vol51/03-mate.html http://www.inchem.org/documents/iarc/vol51/03-mate.html
- petecox 11y agoWhich is possibly more to do with drinking scoldingly hot liquid than the chemical composition. My late father had oesophageal cancer from drinking up to a dozen cups of tea a day, with reflux.
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- arde 11y agoFurthermore, there's a mistake there. The plant name is not written "maté", which would be pronounced mah-TEH, but "mate", and it's pronounced MAH-teh.