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Too Much Tea and More Health Benefits
By William I. Lengeman III In the last decade or so a great deal of ink has been spilled to let the general public know about the potential health benefits of tea. Some of these claims are rather...
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Kids and Tea
If you’re a parent and a tea-drinker, no doubt you’ve had your children ask for sips of tea and denied them. While most of us don’t know the half-life of caffeine (the time it takes for the body to rid...
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Tea and Caffeine
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 9, 2010. The decaffeination process described here has since been shown not to be effective. My thanks to Nigel Melican of Teacraft.com...
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Tea and Taxes
Tax Day is here. For some people still scrambling to fill out the right forms and gather all of their information, this is a very stressful time – even more so for those who owe for the current or...
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To Decaf or Not to Decaf?
As someone who studies tea, writes about it, receives free samples of it in the mail and pretty much feels that it’s an all around good thing, it’s no surprise that I drink a lot of the stuff. But my...
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Tea Caffeine Be Gone, Part I
As one who lives the “tea life,” I keep a nice tasty cupful within easy reach throughout the day, but the caffeine it contains is always on my mind. There’s decaffeinated tea, but I wonder at how the...
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Tea Caffeine Be Gone, Part II
All this talk about how tea gets decaffeinated got me to wondering what all the flap was about. In Part I, I looked at methods people recommend for removing caffeine from tea. Now, let’s look at why...
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Tea, Caffeine, and Hydration
There’s never a shortage of news reports about the assorted and sundry health benefits tea can provide. Many such reports have appeared in these very pages. And while it’s a good idea to take the...
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Might as Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Tea
Are you addicted to tea? Oh, phooey. I have to admit that I find it a bit tiresome the way people toss around the word “addiction” so casually these days, often in situations where it simply doesn’t...
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Addicted to Tea, Part II
Not so long ago I wrote about the notion of tea addiction. I concluded that while you might not be able to develop an addiction to tea, at least not in the strictest sense of the word, it seems...
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Tea Quiz: Which Color of Tea Has More Caffeine
Time for a tea quiz: which of these teas has more caffeine? Rank them high to low. Darker colors of tea liquid are often taken to indicate that something is stronger in flavor or more such-and-such....
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Is Caffeine a “Drug”?
I can across an article on line recently that called caffeine an addictive drug. Well, if you’ve been reading my articles for any length of time, you know I’m a bit of a stickler for correct...
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Does Tea Need More Caffeine?
People have different reasons for drinking tea. Some do so because they grew up in a tea drinking household and that’s just the way things were done. Some people drink it for the taste – a group that...
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“On The Deleterious Effects Produced By Drinking Tea” by John Cole
The general consensus these days is that tea is not bad for you – and there is a fair amount of evidence that it might even be quite good for you. There are exceptions, of course. Like the woman who...
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