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Caffeine in Tea
Filed Under (Lifestyle, health, tea) by Viv on 04-11-2007
Since my last post on my caffeine experienced, a couple of my friends that I met up today, asked me what about drinking tea then?
Tea, I later found is a safer choice for me if I want something hot to drink and a pick-me up. Again which type of tea is taken into consideration. Presently, there are two types of tea I am taking…English Breakfast tea with rice milk or milk and macha green tea.
Since I change to drinking tea, I found I prefer to use loose tea leaves than tea bags. Part of the reason was I found that the tea bags has a sort of bitter chemical taste and was put off by the rusty like colouring floating on my milk. The other reason was I didn’t like the tea after a hot wash for there was no tea taste and flavour.
Sometimes it makes me wonder if these tea bags in the market are using inferior tea leaves because they are so broken up in tiny bits and pieces, and not only that, if the bags used are bleached. I don’t see it with the loose tea leaves and I get a kick when I see the tea leaves swell and open up in my tea pot, at the same time you can also sense the flavour and fragrancy of the tea leaves. I feel I’m drinking real tea as it tastes so much better and I don’t even need to add sugar!
Anyway, I have been wondering if tea bag tea releases more caffeine because the tea leaves have been cut up? Does anyone have any idea?
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I suppose it is better to learn to moderate our intake so it wouldn’t be a problem in the first place. Sometimes, the best life hack is to hack yourself first :)! If really there isn’t an option, might as well learn to skip it entirely…but can I?

In brewing tea, the hot/near-boiling water is breaking down the soluble components (this includes caffeine) of the tea leaves to produce the beverage. The rate of this dissolution is a factor of the surface area of the leaf particles. So given the same tea leaf weight to water ratio, and the same length of brewing time, more caffeine would be present in the final drink when using finer (commercial tea bags) particles versus larger, loose leaf teas. However, maintaining those first two controls would otherwise alter the drink: a 5 minute brew for both bags and loose leaf would make for a over brewed (strong) and under brewed (weak) product respectively. Any reasonable job of adjusting brew time to match particle size would ensure a practicably even amount of caffeine.
Moderation is important. By the way, I tagged you to a meme and you can read about it in my blog. Hope you participate.
Oh, I am glad to hear you pop into my biology blog. It is meant for students but well, nobody seems to care and i add in pictures to attract the attention. I guess I fail, I want to revamp it but it will take time. Do give some ideas! And yes, I prefer my other blog, http://steptpg.blogspot.com and http://travelpangs.blogspot.com
Meanwhile, I ‘ll take some tea. I prefer Chinese tea, no sugar, no milk!
Oh no, another thing that I like most. I don’t know if I can survive without coffee or tea for a day. No wonder you are so healthy.
Ouch. I’m an avid tea and coffee drinker. No wonder I barely get sleepy lol