So I'm trying to stay away from caffeine. No real reason, just trying to increase my daily water intake and I've heard that for every cup of a caffeinated beverage you drink, you have to replace it with two cups of water. So that would mean I'd have to go pee twice as much. And you know, sitting on the pot, having Austin Power pees - not my thang, really. Sooooo, I guess maybe there is a real reason I'm staying away from caffeine.
Anyway, in the breakroom at work, they had these Tazo Chai Tea filterbags. They look SOOOOOO good and are remind me of my days in the motherland. OK, so not the motherland, seeing as how I've only been there twice. It reminds me of my days at Starbucks, OK?! They have some damn good chai. So anyway, back to the filterbags. I'm thinking, sweet, free tea in the breakroom. But damn, does it have a lot of caffeine?
The answer lies below (if you want to click you can, if not, I'm not offended. I mean, really, it's just about tea, it's not that exciting).
YES YES YES it has caffeine.
From the Tazo website:
Tea and Caffeine
Believe it or not, tea leaves contain more caffeine by weight than coffee. But on a per-cup basis, brewed black tea has about one-third the caffeine of coffee. And yes, green teas also contain caffeine, sometimes even as much as black tea.
This Tazo Chai is a Black Tea. And then I see this:
Did You Know?
There is an easy way to remove the caffeine from tea yourself. Simply pour boiling water over your filterbag or loose tea and steep for 45 seconds. Then pour off the water and re-brew the leaves with freshly boiled water. You will say bon voyage to about 95% of the caffeine, while retaining about 80% of the fabulous flavor.
How exciting is that? It's a pretty neat factoid that I had no idea about. It's also good for pregnant woman to know - those that can't really have caffeine, yada yada yada. But then I got to thinking. I really want this tea solely for the flavor it has - do I really want to lose 20% of that for caffeine? I think not. Water Closet, here I come!
