tea review: grapefruit guava yerba mate

[spiralicious]

Tea Month 2025: Tea 11

Tea Review
Name: Yerba Mate Grapefruit Guava
Brand: Mateína
Type: yerba mate with less than 1% juice blend
Canned

Notes:
I had planned on not including any pre-made teas this year, but there are two I really want to talk about and this is one of them. This tea was awful. I normally really like yerba mate, even premade in a can and I picked this one up out of curiosity because of the "grapefruit guava" flavor. It just tastes like someone dumped a bunch of citric acid packets in a glass of water and stirred it up. Yes, I remembered to shake it well. I used to drink citric acid mixed in water, but this is super intense. I checked the ingredients. Yerba Mate is first and yerba mate flavor is third. Not a trace of it in the flavor. Lemon juice concentrate, citric acid, and grapefruit juice concentrate are the last three ingredients. Knowing that it was supposed to be grapefruit guava flavored, I could almost get there, but in a blind taste it just was citric acid. The one plus was one of the "shake well" logos was cute.

Rate
Appearance: 7
Aroma: 3
Flavor: 1

Overall Rating: 1 star

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I drink yerba mate, too. Interesting. It has a very distinctive earthy taste so it's strange you couldn't taste it :/

[spiralicious]

Yes, it's very bizarre.