Is the caffeine in green tea bad?

Question

I know green tea is supposed to be really healthy, so I have tried drinking some everyday. However, after I have had the tea for a few days I start to feel nauseated and I throw up. I am not sure if it is because maybe I stopped drinking it for a day and my system revolted or what. This has happened various times, years apart. Is it because of the caffeine? I don't drink coffee or pop very often so maybe my system isn't used to the caffeine?

Answer 1

Actually, many people don't know that there are different kinds of caffeine. In fact, the caffeine in tea was called theine before people recognized its similarities to the caffeine in coffee, chocolate and other substances.

Tea also contains much less caffeine than coffee. A cup of coffee generally contains about 80 mg of caffeine, while the same amount of green tea usually has 20 mg. Generally speaking, black teas contain approx. 40, oolongs contain approx. 30, and white teas approx. 15 mg.

In addition, the caffeine found in tea is usually more water soluble than that found in coffee, allowing the body to digest and process it faster and not keeping one up all night long.

If you are still worried about the caffeine in tea, you can steep your tea for 30 seconds, discard the water, and re-steep with new water to eliminate most of the caffeine. Teas release almost all of their caffeine initially, while maintaining much of the flavor, so discarding the first batch will cut back.

There are lots of great books on tea if you are looking for more information.

Answer 2

The diet coke...It has aspartame, acid, and a lot of other things...If you break if it down aspartame contains like formeldahyde which they put into ciggarrettes, but nevermind that. Aspartame has horrible long term effects and can cause dementia, weight gain (when you start to drink too much coke, your body will read the diet coke as sugar and produce insulin even though there is none), and aspartame messes with your brain. Also the acid in coke takes out calcium that you have in your bones and teeth, and it's pretty bad on your teeth too. You know without food coloring coke is green (just some random fact.) The tea probably has sugar, and honey isn't bad for you, the sugar is, but that's just some simple carbohydrates. Your body might make some insulin, but your way better off with the green tea and a little caffeine than from what diet coke can do to you. And you can burn the green tea off. Once you get aspartame in your brain it never leaves. Why don't you drink some juice with no sugar added, some milk, or some water instead...even coffee might be better. edit:You're better off with the green tea then with the diet coke, even though it has high corn fructose syrup, i think sugar is better than acid, and aspartame.

Answer 3

When are you drinking the green tea? I noticed that if I drink it in the morning before breakfast I will get light headed because I haven't eaten anything yet. Caffeine is the same no matter where you get it from, and I don't think it is necessarily bad for you because it speeds up your metabolism :)

Answer 4

caffeine in green tea is not supposed to be bad.if green tea is considered as something healthy then the caffeine has nothing to do with it.i can tell you cause i drink green tea everyday and i don't throw up.it's good for you.

Answer 5

Caffine is the same no matter where you get it. However there is a lot less in green tea than coffee, coke, etc. You should get some decaffinated green tea and see if that causes you to get sick. If it does, you know its not the caffine.

Answer 6

that could be what's causing you to feel that way. especially if you aren't used to it. caffeine is ok so long as you don't drink too much. maybe drink one cup a week and see how that does.

Answer 7

not sure, but Green Tea is good for you!!!

Answer 8

could be caffee is a drug.. everything in moderation i guess...Guess you'll have to keep tryin and see if its' the problem