If I have a cup of tea, am I getting more caffeine than in a cup of coffee?
Not likely unless you make very strong tea. Weight for weight tea has more caffeine than coffee but you use a lot less. When you consider you put tops three teaspoons of tea leaves in a litre pot of tea, and one teaspoon of instant coffee in a cup of coffee it puts it in perspective. Tea bags have a miniscule amount of actual tea leaf in them. I’ve never made real coffee in my life so I don’t know how much bean you use, but I have it on good authority that there’s virtually always more caffine in coffee.
So drink coffee. It’s got other health benefits as well, and besides its more civilised.
From Frequently Asked Questions about Caffeine
Obviously these figures would change when talking about specific blends but on average I’d say coffee will always have a higher level of caffine.
Forget coffee; one of those 52 oz. tubs full of Jolt cola will get your day off to a good start, without as much of the negative teeth-staining, breath-polluting effects of java.
You kids today. No spine. In my day we didn’t drink Jolt, we drank Nitro… it has four times Jolt’s level of caffiene.
The rumour always was that it was illegal in some states.
Oddly enough, this was one of the first questions I asked when I joined this board. Manhattan was kind enough to point me towards the board’s search engine to find a previous thread on the subject. Yojimbo pretty much covered the bases on this one, though.
::crotchety old man voice:: Oh yeah, well back in MY day we didn’t have Coffee… no… we had chew on coffee beans after we walked a thousand miles to Columbia to pick’em off the branches… Int the SNOW
punk snot dead,
broccoli!
So much for the caffeine aspect. Tea has less than coffee. But what about theophylline? Another chemical with mixed reviews.
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