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Lately, I've switched from coffee to a nice, soothing cup of tea.
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Edit: pu'er, black, green, white tea. Love it all and drink it more than I drink coffee. No need to start a culture war; taste is as individual as humour.
As a caffeine addict, I prefer black tea because it has a shitload of caffeine in it, but makes me less jittery than coffee. However, coffee just tastes better. So I just drink both, consecutively.
Put a tea bag in a mug of coffee.
You blasphemous mongrel
So no to chai lattes then?
I’m not cultured enough for such elegant indulgences
My mother was a bitch, so what?
I tried switching to black tea a couple of years ago because I realized that coffee was making my anxiety worse, but fucking hell did tea give me the jitters. I think I just have a bad reaction to tannins in general and apparently black tea is super high in them.
I had that, and still get it from time to time, but found that if I wait until I've eaten to drink tea that it feels fine.
Coffee on an empty stomach is nothing, but strong tea on an empty stomach has me feeling like being assaulted at a molecular level
Yeah it makes my teeth chatter, it's very strange. I didn't noticed a big difference between full vs. empty stomach but I wasn't paying much attention to that either.
I will say that most types of tea do this to me, to varying degrees. Black teas are the worst, green tea isn't nearly as bad. I've had some Chinese white teas and I barely noticed any jitteriness, but those teas really aren't very strong to begin with.
Give white tea a try sometime. It has almost no tannins and less caffeine than black tea. The flavor is much lighter and more fruity
Yeah! I think I mentioned it in another comment in this thread, but a friend of mine has recently gotten really into Gong Fu style tea and I've tried several white teas with him, and they didn't give me that jittery feeling at all.
A heads up if you start making it yourself that you don't want boiling water with white tea, it will burn it/make it bitter. It is delicious though!
It makes you less jittery because it does not, in fact, have a lot of caffeine in it.
Depends on the tea and I tend to make mine very strong
I thought tea had way less caffeine than coffee.
Checked and on average black tea seems to be about half. It can get "up to" what a normal cup of coffee has.