Caffein wars that is!
Professor Griffiths of Johns Hopkins may have started a little war of words with his meta-analysis of coffee and caffein. This is of course of interest to us because many of the American tea drinkers come to tea via the route of coffee. We have many customers who tell us that they started drinking tea because they didn’t like the “edge” that coffee gave them.
So, when this article came out, (its actually a meta-analysis of several studies) it didn’t seem like anything big. Its the obvious story - people like their morning java because they are addicted to their coffee. But, as you have it, some people like this common sense story while others don’t. Just google Griffith’s name and you will see what I mean.
You can judge the article for yourself. The link is here.
For the record, a cup of Tea generally contains less than half the caffein of a cup of coffee. If you want it even less, then we suggest you brew the tea for 30 seconds and throw out that water. Caffein being highly soluble in water, is easily removed in this way. Of course, if you have full leaf tea that you are using, then I wouldn’t recommend this because full leaf tea takes a long time to steep, and you may never get all the caffein in the leaf into your cup in the first place.