Drinking

My friend Sarah Trench posted an excellent article about tea and caffeine. She writes that tea has less caffeine than coffee and each type of tea has variables, including how it's brewed, that influence how much caffeine you get from the cup.

Camellia sinensis is one such plant. Originally, caffeine in tea was called "theine" until it was discovered that the two were actually identical and the name was dropped. In sweeping generalizations, it is said that black tea contains about half as much caffeine per cup as coffee, green tea, half of that, and white tea, even less. Though as with most generalizations, there's more to it than that.

I've enjoyed the teas from Silk Road Teas for years, but usually limited my purchases to their excellent selection of oolong and pu erh teas. Recently I ordered a selection of black teas to sample and I must admit I'm impressed.