Is it true that mate tea has more caffeine than coffee?

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Not at first. In fact, 100 milliliters of good espresso coffee can contain 13 times more caffeine than the same amount of mate tea. But the thing is a bit relative. “The caffeine content, both in coffee and in mate, varies depending on several factors: the planting region, how the product is processed in the industry, the amount of water used in preparation”, says nutritionist Deborah Markowicz, from USP . Thus, 100 milliliters of industrialized mate tea can have up to 25 milligrams of caffeine, instead of the average value of 7 milligrams that appears in the table. Another example: the mate used in mate can be even stronger. “When the herb is roasted, in the industry, it loses caffeine”, says biologist Marlus Kormann, who works for a company that manufactures mate tea.

For you to have an idea: 100 milliliters of chimarrão can have between 29 and 89 milligrams of the substance. The same amount of a very weak strained coffee, the way Americans like it, has 25 milligrams of caffeine. Already a very strong strain, in the Brazilian style, reaches 100 milligrams. In addition to coffee and yerba mate, caffeine is also found in common tea (made from the Camellia sinensis plant), chocolate and soft drinks such as guarana and cola.