Have you determined you want to reduce your caffeine level? If you're ditiching coffee and soda for tea, you'll want to educate yourself on which teas are the lowest in caffeine. This primer will help you distinguish caffeinated teas from teas that don't contain caffeine.
If you're switching from drinking coffee, you maybe interested to learn an eight-ounce serving of coffee contains 150-200 milligrams of caffeine. You can compare this to the following teas, which are listed from most caffeinated to lowest in caffeine content.
Black tea has the most caffeine in it, containing 60-90 milligrams of caffeine per eight-ounce serving. You'll find out black tea is the tea served as traditional ice tea (or sweet tea, if you're in the south) and is the basis for Earl Grey, Irish Breakfast and English Breakfast teas. It can be drank straight, with lemon, or with milk and honey.
If you drink oolong tea, you'll be taking in 50-75 milligrams of caffeine each time. That’s what you usually are served in Asian restaurants. It is served plain, with no sweetener.
If you swtich to green tea, you'll take in 35-70 milligrams of caffeine each time. You can find a variety of green teas, most of them combined with lemongrass, all of which are best served plain.
White tea contains 30-55 milligrams of caffeine. A lot of people love white tea for it's smooth taste.
If you're wanting to go caffeine-free, try red rooibos or herbal tea. Look for redbush tea (that is red rooibos), and drink it with honey and a touch of milk. Other examples of herbal teas are mint, orange zest, rosehip, chamomile, lemon zest, berry, and cinnamon spice teas.
One last tea is caffeine-free but not stimulant free; yerba matte. You can find yerba matte everywhere in South America. People like the way the stimulant in yerba mattte makes them feel, since it is a gentler stimulant.
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