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1. •Ilex guayusa
2. Ilex guayusa is an Amazonian tree of the holly genus, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. One of three known caffeinated holly trees, the leaves of the guayusa tree are dried and brewed like a tea for their stimulative effects.Wikiped

   
   

   
   

   •Yerba mate (yer-bah mah-tay) is made from the naturally caffeinated and nourishing leaves of the celebrated South American rainforest holly tree (Ilex paraguariensis). For centuries, South America’s Aché Guayakí tribe have sipped yerba mate from a traditional mate gourd for its rejuvenative effects. These rainforest people find tremendous invigoration, focus, and nourishment in yerba mate.

   
   

   The leaves of the rainforest mate treenaturally contain 24 vitamins and minerals, 15 amino acids, abundant antioxidants. In fact, The Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific society in 1964 concluded 

   "it is difficult to find a plant in any area of the world equal to mate in nutritional value" and that yerba mate contains 

   "practically all of the vitamins necessary to sustain life."

   Yerba mate contains caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine,well-known stimulants also found in tea, coffee and chocolate.  

   Unlike coffee, yerba mate is not oily and acid forming.

   National drink in Paraguay, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil.

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