Green tea caffeine

Billions people on mother Earth begin morning with a tea cup. And what for? Certainly, to shake from itself sleepy fetters and to enter into coming day. And at the expense of what? Certainly, at the expense of influence main alkaloidа tea - caffeine. Than more than caffeine in tea -more we receive a morning charge of vivacity.

But in what tea – green, or black it is more than caffeine? Very many people consider that stronger accordingly more sated with caffeine black tea. Whether so it?

To find out what kind of tea is stronger – green or black, public organization "EXPERT" in Ukraine has spent for the first time laboratory comparison between green and black tea. Such fight on a ring between "Black" and "Green". Who of whom? We investigated 34 samples of tea and have defined:

In green tea of caffeine it is more!

In our research green tea has confidently taken all higher positions of a rating of the maintenance of caffeine in tea. "Black" we even gave odds - from 34 samples in their command was 21 "fighter", in a command "green"-13. "Green" have all the same won. From 13 samples of green teas 8 – were leaders and on the general, % to maintenance of caffeine and under the caffeine maintenance in recalculation on 1 bag. It unequivocally speaks about higher maintenance of caffeine in comparison with black tea. So, the caffeine maintenance in 1 bag of green tea was, as a rule, more than 71 mg, and in black tea of 71 mg is a limit.

Most caffeinated there was a group of green teas without flavors. There the caffeine maintenance in the majority of teas was more than 80 mg. We will underline that all resulted figures are resulted on a cup of tea. Not a dry tea leaf, namely on a cup of tea. The weight of bags was thus considered also – after all there are bags on 2 grams, and is and on 1,5 grams. All meticulously has been considered.

So, 5 various kinds of tea have been investigated: black, green, black with a lemon, green with a jasmin, black with a bergamot. The highest maintenance of caffeine among 34 samples was at tea HERITAGE (green, without flavors) – 85 mg in 1 cup of tea. The lowest maintenance of caffeine among 34 samples was at tea DILMAH (black, with lemon flavor) – 40 mg.