Tea and caffeine
LurfysMa > wrote:
>Is there somewhere I can find out how much caffeine ther si in various
>teas?
No, and this is a big problem..
>Is there an online vendor that reports the caffeine content for all or
>most of the teas they sell? I found 1 or 2 that had some information,
>but none that had it listed with each tea.
No, and what is worse, the method you use to make the tea may affect
things too.
>As I understand it, the teas ranked fro lowest caffeine to highest
>a
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>Herbals (I know, not really teas)
>Greens
>Oolongs
>Blacks
This is a very hasty generalization. There are some greens which have
lots of caffeine and some blacks which don't.
>However, on the few sites that I found that showed caffeine content,
>some of the greens were higher than most of the blacks.
Right. I don't know of any way short of actually making a cup of tea
and doing an analysis, or drinking it and seeing how it makes you feel.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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