Posted by psychobot5000 on October 5, 2006, at 23:22:51
In reply to Re: end abilify regimen, tianeptine. » psychobot5000, posted by Phillipa on October 5, 2006, at 20:28:00
> Thanks but isn't green tea similar to coffee or real black tea in caffeine? Love Phillipa
I'm something of a tea-lover, so the answer I'll give is a little complicated. Let me start by saying that there are tea-extract capsules that have the caffeine removed, but leave the other important chemicals.
Short answer is that the tea I've been drinking is very low-caffeine, though it does have some. Here's the long answer below.
As for green tea, the caffeine content is quite variable, but it is generally somewhat less than in black tea, and far less than in coffee. The amount of caffeine depends on various factors: how much the leaves are fermented (very little for green tea), the size of the leaves picked, growing conditions for the plant, how the tea was processed after it's picked...the resulting beverage varies greatly, but each type of tea (i.e. dragon well, english breakfast, earl grey) has a certain range of caffeine that's usually pretty consistent--it's not an exact science.
But the tea I've been drinking lately is Hojicha (a green), which is very low in caffeine, perhaps 5-12 mg per 8 ounce cup, compared to 30-50 for a black tea, and maybe 80 for coffee. So I get a lot of other green-tea chemicals without much caffeination. The average cup of green tea might have more like 25mg.
Still, there are some other more minor stimulants in tea, besides the caffeine--it's a more complex chemical cocktail than coffee, but I suppose that's why it's useful to us people.
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