My hubby tried telling me that caffine is only absorbed into your body if you've consumed the tea leaves! I think he's being naive, but i'd like to hear what everyone else has to say about this.
2007-01-13 21:00:02 · 7 answers · asked by kylie.brand 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Also curious to know if anyone knows what the ratio intake is between say for example one cup of coffee or tea. As someone has also tried telling me that coffee has more caffine then tea.
2007-01-13 21:20:29 · update #1
I just came across this website about the comparisons of tea to coffee:
http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm
And i'm now stumped as to how white tea (added milk) can have a negative affect on caffine???? Respones to this would appreciated as well.
2007-01-13 21:32:01 · update #2
Nope--otherwise there wouldn't be such a thing as decaffeinated tea, made with bags of leaves!
I read in a Martha Stewart magazine, however, that you can significantly reduce the amount of caffeine in tea by pouring boiling water in your cup with the teabag in it, letting it steep for about 30 seconds, then dumping that cup out and refilling with new water. Since most of a teabag's caffeine comes out quickly, you can use this method to eliminate a lot of the caffeine -and- that bitter taste that gets into tea when you let it steep for too long.
Best of luck!
2007-01-13 21:21:47 · answer #1 · answered by Andrea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell hubbie I say he's a moron. Actually, tell him he's right and then brew up a half-gallon of nice, strong, caffeinated iced tea and give it to him when he's really thirsty and then watch him twitch and jitter and try to tell you he didn't just drink a bunch of caffeine. Roughly speaking, tea has about half the caffeine of coffee and green tea has about half the caffeine of black tea.
2007-01-14 05:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not naive (wrong descriptive adj, I think, better to say maybe absurd, uninformed, or maybe even exagerating) but, no. He is wrong. There is definitely caffine in tea (decaf tea!) even if you do not eat the tea leaves.
2007-01-14 05:11:10 · answer #3 · answered by Chris the discerner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is wrong
he must be confused with the difference between herbal tea and "normal" tea
tea that contains real tea leaves contains caffeine
herbal "tea" does not contain tea leaves and does not have caffeine
2007-01-14 05:18:59 · answer #4 · answered by Jac B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, otherwise they wouldn't need to sell decaffeinated tea, would they?
2007-01-14 05:06:21 · answer #5 · answered by babeUK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No..
He is pulling your leg.
2007-01-14 05:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-01-14 05:04:12 · answer #7 · answered by Vinnie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋