“…There have not been any reports about the aqueous extraction kinetics of yerba mate; nevertheless, there are many studies about extraction kinetics of components of tea and coffee (Jaganyi and Madlala, 2000;Jaganyi and Price, 1999;Spitzer, 1993, 1994;Spiro and Chong, 1997;Spiro and Jago, 1982;Spiro and Selwood, 1984;Stapley, 2002;Zanoni et al, 1992), metabolites extraction kinetics as phenolics, antioxidants and fat substances in other products (Bucić -Kojić et al, 2007;Cacace and Mazza, 2003;Franco et al, 2007;Herodež et al, 2003;Ho et al, 2005;Jaganyi and Wheeler, 2003;Kashyap et al, 2007;Wongkittipong et al, 2004) and a report on yerba mate extraction optimization (Sambiassi et al, 2002). There are several kinetics models for the interpretation of experimental extraction data.…”