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| Tea (rec.drink.tea) Discussion relating to tea, the world's second most consumed beverage (after water), made by infusing or boiling the leaves of the tea plant (C. sinensis or close relatives) in water. |
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10-10-2003, 11:53 AM
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Nightime Tea
Have you tried white teas such as Pai-Mu-Tan or Shou Mei? If you like the
taste, they tend to have even lower caffeine than green teas. Judith ... http://www.mirandateas.com "Cameron Lewis" wrote in message m... I don't drink non-camellia sinensis teas, but I've found that some greens are very calming and contain sufficiently low caffeine that I drink them before sleep. I have one jasmine tea (FunAlliance's Dragon Balls) that actually seems to make me sleepy. I've heard that jasmine has a mildly narcotic effect, but hadn't noticed it until this tea. Lungjing or dragonwell is also a favourite pre-sleep tea of mine. Cameron 
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10-10-2003, 04:33 PM
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Nightime Tea
"Judith Miranda" writes:
Have you tried white teas such as Pai-Mu-Tan or Shou Mei? If you like the taste, they tend to have even lower caffeine than green teas. The idea that green and white teas have less caffeine than e.g. blacks is a bit of folklore that no contrary evidence seems to kill, but those with a taste for evidence might look at http://www.holymtn.com/tea/teacaffeine.htm As readers here have seen, there's a germ of truth in the folklore in that caffeine's solubility is diminished by the low brewing temperatures and short steep times people tend to use with greens. But if you do multiple steeps you're probably going to overcome those limiting factors. /Lew --- Lew Perin / http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html
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11-10-2003, 12:30 AM
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Nightime Tea
Hmm, that's pretty interesting. Thanks for the pointer. I guess an entire
industry needs to be re-trained.  Judith -- http://www.mirandateas.com "Lewis Perin" wrote in message news  "Judith Miranda" writes: Have you tried white teas such as Pai-Mu-Tan or Shou Mei? If you like the taste, they tend to have even lower caffeine than green teas. The idea that green and white teas have less caffeine than e.g. blacks is a bit of folklore that no contrary evidence seems to kill, but those with a taste for evidence might look at http://www.holymtn.com/tea/teacaffeine.htm As readers here have seen, there's a germ of truth in the folklore in that caffeine's solubility is diminished by the low brewing temperatures and short steep times people tend to use with greens. But if you do multiple steeps you're probably going to overcome those limiting factors. /Lew --- Lew Perin / http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html
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30-11-2004, 02:59 PM
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I was just reading about the calming effect of green teas and how they
can actually put you to sleep. They do have low caffeine levels as well, especially sencha and bancha. They also contain katechins, which help your body fight off viruses. Most Japanese people have tended to drink a cup of green tea (usually sencha) at night for the past few centuries for its overall wellness related qualities. Fukamushi sencha is very nice and mellow. Rufus T. Firefly
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