May I take maté (dried form) on an aircraft and may I drink some while on board?

I'm from Argentina, and I'm not sure if one can board a commercial flight with mate ("tea"). It's a beverage you prepare by filling a recipient with the dried grass ("yerba mate") with hot water, and drink it from there with a straw-ish.

Will I be allowed to carry it on board, or should I dispatch it with the hold luggage? May I drink it during the flight?

I know you can't board with water, but I was expecting the flight attendants to provide me.

Does any of the answers change between a domestic flight in Argentina - or maybe other mate-drinking countries - and international flights?

Best Answer

To amplify pnuts' answer, I suggest you pack your mate alongside empty fill-them-yourself teabags. Having the two of them together in the same context makes it more likely that the airport screener will assume the mate is some exotic kind of tea, rather than anything more suspicious.

(Yes, I know that mate is not brewed in teabags; you're using them like a theatrical prop.)

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I am just back from Buenos Aires Argentina via a Delta Airlines flight. At the last hand luggage check before boarding I had a bag of 1 kg of MATÉ confiscated. The TSA agent (not an american) took it saying only 1lbs of "spice" are allowed on board. I can't find anywhere this very specific rule so if you want to have some MATÉ on board you have to carry only small quantities and check before with your airline as I am sure that it would have been no problem with Aerolineas Argentinas or any South American airlines!

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