Blues Lyne wrote:
>
> Alex wrote:
> >Once again I've emailed 2
> > companies about this, neither of which have responded, and google turns
> > up nothing. Also, I don't take this with sugar and if I add milk then
> > it's only a negligible amount of skim, which is why I specifically
> > asked for the values without milk and sugar.
>
> Hmm, I did a simple google search for "yerba mate calories" and found quite
> a few sites with info. According to what I found a tisane of Mate has no
> calories.

Pure sugar itself has only 15 calories per teaspoon. So it's doubtful
Alex is endangering his trim figure by drinking 6 teaspoons of any sort
of infusion a day. If, like he says, he doesn't load it down with milk
and sugar, then there's probably nothing to worry about. Except, of
course, the embarrassment of revealing to your buddies that you're
drinking tiramisu yerba mate...

--crymad


>You can find the info he
>
> http://www.frontiercoop.com/shop/mer..._Code=beblkthe
>
> http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:I...hl=en&ie=UTF-8
>
> http://www.google.com/search?num=50&...+mate+calories