Happy National Mate Day!

Later on, Hernandarias banned the herb (mate).

As usual, the fans of mate used Twitter to express themselves

The mate is prepared with dry and ground leaves and twigs of yerba mate, also known as yerba from Paraguay.

Typical calabash gourd where mate is served.

Today is the first ever Día Nacional del Mate (national mate day).

Bitter, sweet, very hot even dipped the mate is the great companion of Argentinians.

Mate contains nutrients and provides several benefits to the health of the consumers.

In the country, the figures of the consumption of mate speak for themselves a research by the National Institute of Yerba Mate found out that consumers of the infusion drink an average of 100 liters of ros mate per year.

On November 30 Argentina celebrated the National del Mate, the most popular drink in the country.

Today, it would be unimaginable to ban mate in Argentina, though that is precisely what happened in the 17th century, when sipping mate was considered an abhorrent habit, and a dangerous contagion among indigenous people

Starting on April 1, 2012, the price of yerba mate increased from 50 to 100 .

The history of story of yerba mate has even inspired cartoons, like the one below uploaded to YouTube

According to research by the National Institute of Yerba Mate, the average Argentinian consumes up to one hundred liters of mate each year

Each year, purchases of yerba mate are as high as 240,000 tons, compared to the 33,400 tons of coffee and the 6,000 tons of tea.

Furthermore, the yerba mate is an antioxidant more powerful that the ascorbic acid, from Vitamin C.

Image from the Flickr account by user Diego (CC BY NC 2.0).

The name mate comes from the name of the calabash gourd that is traditionally used as a container for the infusion.

a maid was at the farm preparing lechada (hot milk with sugar) that Rosas used to drink his traditional mate with.

And as if that weren't enough, mate provides the body with vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, E, and up to 15 amino acids.

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Kendrick Johnson, of Valdosta, Ga., was found Jan. 11 stuck in an upright mat propped behind the bleachers inside his high school gym.

Today the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) started a campaign against the modification of the law, calling on citizens to write protest letters to the Minister of the Interior and to Máté Kocsis, the referee of the homeless issues.

Drinking mate makes men lazy, which is a total ruin of the earth, and as it is big (both the extension and depth of the vice), I'm afraid it can't be taken away if God doesn't do it, claimed Negrón .

The day after the law passed on November 11, a citizen group called Börtön helyett lakhatást (Housing, Not Prison) organized a sit in protest in Máté Kocsis' mayor's office.

But the punishment wasn't limited to the incineration of the herb Hernandarias also sentenced anyone who smuggled or pretended to smuggle into the city to 100 lashes.