Yawn’s Morning Maté: The (other) caffeinated herb

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Yawn Advent Calendar Day 12 – Morning Maté

I’m sure you all know my views on herbal teas by now. They’re pointless, often tasteless affairs that are quite emphatically not tea. However, I do feel like I should show a bit of respect for Yerba Maté, which, while also not being a tea, does at least have the good sense to contain caffeine. In this regard, it outperforms rooibos (the only Tea Fancier-approved non-tea that hangs around the tea section*).

Yawn has marked the halfway point of the advent calendar with Morning Maté, a blend of apple, rosehip, orange, hibiscus, sunflower petals, safflower, rosemary, green maté leaves and natural flavourings. The website promises that this brew will “help you wake up and stay focused”, which sounds like something I can do with. Mind you, I drank this tea at five in the afternoon rather than in the morning as, judging by its name, I assume you’re advised to.

Taste-wise, it was an unremarkable generic red tisane of the kind that always score poorly around these parts. However, if I find myself uncharacteristically productive this afternoon as a result of Maté’s energy-giving properties, I may come back and bump it up the rankings.

*I feel I needed to make the distinction between ‘things that aren’t tea that still get included in tea advent calendars’ as opposed to things that simply aren’t tea. There are quite a few things that aren’t strictly tea that I like. Chocolate, books, cats, my daughter, holidays by the seaside. All sorts of stuff.

Advent tea ranking:

1. Chocolate Cake (11^th Dec)
2. Pumpkin Whoopie (7^th Dec)
3. Pancake Stack (1^st Dec)
4. Cinnapple Green (6^th Dec)
5. Santa’s Milk & Cookies (3^rd Dec)
6. Sweet Ginger (4^th Dec)
7. Movie Night Popcorn (10^th Dec)
8. Yorkshire Breakfast (9^th Dec)
9. Candy Cane Popcorn (5^th Dec)
10. Apple Crumble (8^th Dec)
11. Morning Maté (12^th Dec)
12. Toffee Apple (2^nd Dec)

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