(bruce) writes:

Lewis Perin wrote in message ...
(bruce) writes:

When you read an article that says there is so much caffeine (or
antioxidant, or whatever) in a cup of tea, does that mean a
serving of leaf or does that mean in a cup of the liquor?

I'm sure they mean a cup of the liquor.

You're sure? That just doesn't make sense to me. There is no
way there is that much caffeine (or polyphenol etc..) in one
teaspoon of green tea leaf.

Sorry, I'm confused now. There's no way there is *how much* caffeine
in a teaspoon of leaf?

In that same literature we read that black tea has more caffeine
than green, but most people re-steep green tea many more times than
black (at least as far as I know, I really only drink green tea so
some black tea drinkers out there feel free to correct me) so the
green tea drinkers would be getting TONS while the black tea
drinkers would get less.

What I've seen of that literature suffers from a lack of clarity and
uniformity as to exactly what was done to yield the liquor they
measured. But I wouldn't exclude the possibility that 5 minutes of
boiling leaves (typical for black) might yield more caffeine than 3
short, relatively cool steeps (of green.)

/Lew
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