NOTE: Ounce per ounce, regular coffee has approximately double the caffeine of black tea. First, realize this is my own (Lynn Whitlark, of Purciful's Magical Toys) condensed version of materials available at any library or in 15 minutes of online search. The most recent "ah-ha!" writings about teas have been about the high immune system benefits of the tea species that gives us black teas of all kinds, oolong, green, and the most recently available version of this plant, white tea. The only differences between the various varieties white, green, oolong, and black teas have to do with: 1. how long the leaves are on the plant before being picked (white is the youngest pick, green is later, and what becomes black is picked last....); 2. fermentation; 3. smoke; and 4. added flavorings or aromatics. Red tea is actually an herb which is a completely different plant than the tea plant (rooibos -- red bush) and comes from South Africa. Like many herbs, it has its own set of properties unrelated to those of the white-green-black traditional tea plant. White tea is tea picked as the first new leaves -- producing a virtually caffeine-free leaf with all the anti-oxident benefits of its older brothers. It is fairly new to the US, and therefore has not been specifically studied separately from the black/green varieties except to note that it has the highest levels of anti-oxidents in any of this plant's teas. |
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