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Any suggestion to chelate tannins in yerba mate ?
Yerba Mate is a good source of thiamine and other vitamins.
But it is also very rich in tannins which interfere with digestion which makes yerba mate practically useless to me.
Unlike coffee , Yerba Mate supresses digestion. (very bad for me)
(Tannins bind very tightly to proteins by forming hydrogen bonds with the –NH groups of peptides or proteins and these bonds cannot be cleaved by digestive enzymes.)
possible solutions:
- Mixing with gelatin (proteins bind Tannins)
- baking soda ( doesn't work for me since baking soda also supresses digestion)
- using second infusion and discarding first one (tannins are quickly leached into water , very soluble, but so is thiamine)
- mixing with milk didn't help much
Yerba Mate is a good source of thiamine and other vitamins.
But it is also very rich in tannins which interfere with digestion which makes yerba mate practically useless to me.
Unlike coffee , Yerba Mate supresses digestion. (very bad for me)
(Tannins bind very tightly to proteins by forming hydrogen bonds with the –NH groups of peptides or proteins and these bonds cannot be cleaved by digestive enzymes.)
possible solutions:
- Mixing with gelatin (proteins bind Tannins)
- baking soda ( doesn't work for me since baking soda also supresses digestion)
- using second infusion and discarding first one (tannins are quickly leached into water , very soluble, but so is thiamine)
- mixing with milk didn't help much
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