Hi all;

I've gotten a bit used to have very large bottles of diet pepsi when I
have not gotten a lot of sleep the night before.

I was thinking that substituting tea for the diet pepsi would be a
good move:

- tea also has caffeine
- tea is also very low calorie
- tea is also "sugar" free
- tea is not made with a truckload of toxic waste as is diet pepsi
- tea provides some healthy chemicals, like anti-oxidants.
- tea, even pricier tea, is likely to be cheaper than diet pepsi

I've heard that Irish Breakfast Tea has the most caffeine. If someone
is looking for a tea to wake them up in the morning and clear their
head is Irish Breakfast the best choice or is there a better tea?

black tea
should have "the most caffeine"
but caffeine content varies with production batch
"irish breakfast tea" is a combination of some black teas for flavor
purpose + usually to be combined with milk sugar and such
dont know how the "healthy chemicals" fare when combined with milk,
sugar, etc

other than that ... infuse your black tea for longer time, and drink
many cups :)
tea is not cheaper than pepsi

On Jan 8, 4:04 am, Nigel teacraft.com> wrote:

On Jan 7, 5:00 pm, SN gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the good information.

About diet pepsi. I got started on that habit from the soda machine
at work that sells tall bottle for about $1.30. I have since started
picking up a six pack every other week at a drugstore for about 90
cents a bottle.

From some of the prices of quality teas I have seen on the web many be
cheaper than 90 cents a cup.

On Jan 9, 1:27 am, SN gmail.com> wrote:

Remembering that Taylors Yorkshire Gold is blended for use in the
English way,with milk, both the tea bags and the loose tea have
similar cup qualities. The loose tea is small grade (CTC made BP1)
and requires use of a tea strainer if made in the pot, though is
perfect in an infuser. Personally I opt for the tea bags that I
purchase in 160 bag cartons, which never seem to last long enough.

Nigel at Teacraft

here is my two cents..

as said before, black teas generally have the most caffeine
and also, I have found irish/english/scottish breakfast mixes to be
the most potent. I believe there is a saying that the irish feel a cup
of tea should be strong enough for a mouse to trod on.
that being said however, it's hard to numerically rate one specific
tea as having the most caffeine especially when you consider tea
blends. There are black teas with lower caffeine content and ones with
much higher.

there is a type of tisane called maté which is nearly equivalent to a
cup of coffee in caffeine content. it is a different tasting tea, but
if you are looking for the caffeine, you should try it out. you ca
find it at trader joes, whole foods, and tea stores like
TeaGschwendner and teavana.

I think tea can be cheaper than Pepsi, but it depends on what kind you
buy. as said earlier the 100 count box of off brang generic tea bags
will cost you maybe $4 for that same $4 you could probably buy 4
liters of pepsi.. so in that scenario i think the tea wins out.

Perceptions, perceptions . . . oit to n caffeine in Mate I would
commend reading:

http://www.erowid.org/plants/yerba_mate/yerba_mate_chemistry2.shtml

Erowid gives range in Mate as 0.5 to 2.0%%. I have found range in
black tea from 1 to 7%%. As ever it depends how strong you brew your
Mate, Tea. or Coffee. In Argentina they put huge amount in the gourd
but top it up for hours with water - on average, at 0.5%% to 2%% in the
leaf, it probably comes out much weaker than tea made by one shot
method.

With all caffeine intake the user generally quits when they twitch.
Tea derived caffeine (due to polyphenol complexing and theanine
balancing) can be imbibed at far higher doses before you twitch. A
student of tea scientist Prof Spiro "once drank some 20 cups within
1.5 hours and then felt quite strange and light headed" but soon
walked the effect off - I suspect that the same level of caffeine
imbibed from coffee, mate or cola would milligram for milligram have
more dire effects.

Nigel at Teacraft

Steve gmail.com> wrote:

All of these are true, but if you care about lower cost and fewer added
byproducts, skip the tea and go right to vivarin. It's pure caffeine,
obtained as a byproduct of decaffeinating coffee. You can also purchase
caffeine solution for intravenous injection although it will require a
prescription.

Irish Breakfast is a blend of different Assam teas, and the blend varies
by manufacturer. You cannot easily say that one tea will have more caffeine
than another without either trying or measuring them individually.

On Jan 11, 12:08 pm, klu...@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: