Comments on: Illicit Cola: Its Good to be Bad?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:52:34 +0000

they now have Illicit Venom out and it is going off, worth a go.

By: mate

mate — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:18 +0000

http://www.erowid.org/plants/yerba_mate/yerba_mate_chemistry1.shtml

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:56:04 +0000

Tbh I’d say it’s the excess caffeine levels in combination with the sugar. I’m sure you drink a lot of energy drinks and such, but still. I’m basing this off of personal experience. I’ve never had that happen with an “energy drink” except Jolt Cola. Which, exactly as you said, is more a a high caffeine soda than an actual “energy drink.” Just my two cents <3

By: ted

ted — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:28 +0000

@yoda, while I agree in general Yerba Mate is great, healthy etc. You can’t assume that no one would have adverse reactions to it.

By: yoda

yoda — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:01:01 +0000

My guess is that something else in the drink made you sick. Yerba mate is not going to make you sick( it won’t make your throat hurt)–unless they put something weird in the yerba mate. Actually, yerba mate is very good for the body as it is very health generating! For the record, while yerba mate will give you that “awake and alert” feeling, but it will not give you any of the negative effects of caffeine. This is because what really is in it is mateine, which is similar to caffeine–they’re both xanthines, but again, mateine is completely safe, without the adverse effects of caffeine. There’s some great information about yerba mate at http://fullyflexed.com/yerba-mate

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:32 +0000

Yerba mate makes me feel sick and yeah it does hurt my throat too. I’ve had it in one of the kinds of Amp energy drink. I forget what color. I just drank 3 Max Velocity drinks and its only 10:51 am. O_O I’m so happy.