Yerba mate can be served hot or cold. It is traditionally consumed from a gourd-shaped container and sipped with a metal straw containing a filter at its lower end to strain out the leaf fragments.

Yerba mate plants, available from Perfect Plants nursery, can be planted straight into the ground or in a large container.

Yet another drink is being touted on TikTok as “nature’s Ozempic.” Yerba mate has so many people saying it’s helped them lose weight that it’s kind of hard to ignore—some are even ...