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A hand reaching for a cup of black Mesqi beside the bag on a wooden table
Caffeine, sleep and the 3pm cup: what the research actually says
Caffeine has a half-life of roughly five hours in a healthy adult. Drink a cup at 3pm and about half of it is still in your bloodstream at 8pm. In... Read more...
A bag of Mesqi lying on warm sand, surrounded by whole mesquite pods and leaves
What is mesquite coffee, and what does it actually taste like?
Let's get the obvious out of the way: this isn't coffee. It's the pod of a mesquite tree — Prosopis — dried, roasted dark, ground, and brewed in whatever you... Read more...
Mesquite in the Northern Cape: 1.473 million hectares of Prosopis cover mapped by 2007
Mesquite in the Northern Cape: the numbers behind the invasive-tree argument
Mesquite is an introduced tree that now covers about 1.473 million hectares of the Northern Cape — roughly 4% of the province. A measured stand there transpired 57 mm of... Read more...