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My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have
good flavor, but little caffeine? AP |
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red tea
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steven wrote:
> red tea Rooibos? Tried it. She doesn't like it. AP |
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On Jun 18, 2:51 am, Alan Petrillo > wrote:
> My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have > good flavor, but little caffeine? > > AP It's mostly commonly thought/observed that white tea has the least and black tea has the most caffeine. white -> green -> oolong -> then either black or puerh tea. A lot of sites have a table like the one on http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm I also found this page (http://nobleharbor.com/tea/caffiene.html) which thought these figures were all hooey. Try some lighter teas and if they don't give a bad buzz then stick with them. |
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Steven Dodd > writes:
> On Jun 18, 2:51 am, Alan Petrillo > wrote: > > My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have > > good flavor, but little caffeine? > > > > AP > > It's mostly commonly thought/observed that white tea has the least and > black tea has the most caffeine. white -> green -> oolong -> then > either black or puerh tea. > > A lot of sites have a table like the one on > http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm Sorry, but that's just folklore. > I also found this page (http://nobleharbor.com/tea/caffiene.html) > which thought these figures were all hooey. Ah, now I feel better. I apologize for being cranky, but this subject comes up often here, even though it's been settled on the merits. The short version is: Don't believe that green or white tea in general has less caffeine, and don't believe you can extract nearly all caffeine from tea leaves with a 30-second rinse. It's complicated! /Lew --- Lew Perin / http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html |
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On Jun 18, 12:51 am, Alan Petrillo > wrote:
> My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have > good flavor, but little caffeine? > > AP Just do a caffeine search in this group and you'll find all the info you need. |
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On Jun 18, 1:01 am, steven > wrote:
> red tea Red tea is not tea. It is rooibos. Tea is tea-camillia sinesis. I am joining Lew in crankidom. |
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The like of roobois, yerbal mate (I think)and herbal/flower teas have
no caffeine. I have no comments about their favor because I haven't tried them. It's also important to look at theanine, caffeine and catechins in aggregate, they cancel out each other. I agree with Lewis It IS a complicated subject. Here are some thoughts: http://www.amazing-green-tea.com/gre...-caffeine.html Julian http://www.amazing-green-tea.com |
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You can buy teas that have been decaffeinated by the CO2 process.
This is suppose to remove the caffeine only. They taste metallic to me. You won't get this taste through your own trial and error to eliminate caffeine through infusions. It does prove how important caffeine is to the taste of tea. Jim Alan Petrillo wrote: > My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have > good flavor, but little caffeine? > > > AP |
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Shen > writes:
> On Jun 18, 1:01 am, steven > wrote: > > red tea > > Red tea is not tea. It is rooibos. Tea is tea-camillia sinesis. I am > joining Lew in crankidom. Honored! /Lew --- Lew Perin / http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html |
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Space Cowboy > writes:
> You can buy teas that have been decaffeinated by the CO2 process. > This is suppose to remove the caffeine only. They taste metallic to > me. You won't get this taste through your own trial and error to > eliminate caffeine through infusions. It does prove how important > caffeine is to the taste of tea. Right, that's a point that's usually overlooked. But caffeine is bitter, and some of the people who don't like caffeine's pharmacological effect might have trouble with bitterness, too. Of course, if you can't stand a certain amount of bitterness, there's probably a limit to how interested you can become in tea. /Lew --- Lew Perin / http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html |
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Steven Dodd > wrote:
> >It's mostly commonly thought/observed that white tea has the least and >black tea has the most caffeine. white -> green -> oolong -> then >either black or puerh tea. Unfortunately this is a hasty generalization with no real fact behind it. The caffeine in the leaves isn't affected much by processing, so it has a lot more to do with the particular variety and the soil and weather conditions than anything else. >A lot of sites have a table like the one on http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm >I also found this page (http://nobleharbor.com/tea/caffiene.html) >which thought these figures were all hooey. Try some lighter teas and >if they don't give a bad buzz then stick with them. The figures are all hooey, and the lighter teas may not be any lower in caffeine. Without measuring, you don't really know, although you can expect a pre-steep to reduce the caffeine levels somewhat. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On Jun 18, 5:51 pm, Alan Petrillo > wrote:
> My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have > good flavor, but little caffeine? > > AP Hi Alan, I sell a Herbal Tea called Dales Tea it is all Herbal check out web : www.multiherbaltea.blogspot.com/ It is very pleasant to drink but you canno add sugar or milk only abit o fhoney or lemon. Hope this can help in any way. Tina |
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What do they say about the calm before the storm? :)
-Brent |
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On Jun 19, 8:28 pm, Brent > wrote:
> What do they say about the calm before the storm? :) > > -Brent Yep. Here we go again................... |
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On Jun 19, 7:52 pm, wrote:
> On Jun 18, 5:51 pm, Alan Petrillo > wrote: > > > My girlfriend likes tea, but has trouble with caffeine. What teas have > > good flavor, but little caffeine? > > > AP > > Hi Alan, > > I sell a Herbal Tea called Dales Tea it is all Herbal check out web :www.multiherbaltea.blogspot.com/ > > It is very pleasant to drink but you canno add sugar or milk only abit > o fhoney or lemon. > > Hope this can help in any way. > > Tina Please do not advertise here AND this is not an herbal group. It is a tea group. Herbal recipes are not tea. There is no tolerance, at all, for advertising no matter how helpful your intentions. Since you have not posted here prior to this, your purpose is quite obvious. And, had you read postings of this group in the last month or two, you would realize the unbridled anomosity advertising will provoke. I'd advise you duck. Shen |
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Alan Petrillo wrote:
>>> What teas have good flavor, but little caffeine? Steven Dodd wrote: >> It's mostly commonly thought/observed that white tea has the least and >> black tea has the most caffeine. white -> green -> oolong -> then >> either black or puerh tea. >> I also found this page ... which thought these figures were all hooey. Lewis Perin wrote: > ... Don't believe that green or white tea in general has less caffeine, > and don't believe you can extract nearly all caffeine from tea leaves > with a 30-second rinse. It's complicated! Yes, rather. May I suggest an alternative approach: find the tea that offers the most satisfying flavor per gram of dry leaf, and brew it as weakly as possible. To my taste, some oolongs and most whites give their peak enjoyment when brewed so lightly that there is little or no color to the brew. No kick-in-the-teeth flavor, but enough to balance the rich aroma - right for sipping and sharing, not for bull-drinking. An analogy is what happened when tobacco companies started selling low-nicotine cigarettes. Most addicts smoke to a constant blood level of nicotine (which isn't especially dangerous); getting there with reduced-nicotine tobacco means inhaling a lot more tar, CO and other bad stuff. So the health benefit was kind of reversed. In this case, the opportunity is to achieve sensory satisfaction with the least leaf, since all have (very roughly) the same extractable percentage of caffeine. juliantai wrote: > It's also important to look at theanine, caffeine and catechins in > aggregate, they cancel out each other. Err - let's watch the medical generalizations. They don't "cancel each other out" any more than amphetamines and alcohol; they work together in partially opposite directions, leaving plenty of side-effects. It may be true that for some people, there's an overall uniform effect. But people who are caffeine-sensitive will not be "saved" by those other components. -DM |
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