Tea is a great choice if you are looking for a
low-caffeine drink. In fact, a cup of black tea has about � the caffeine as coffee and a cup of green tea has less caffeine than a bar of dark chocolate. It would take 15 cups of green tea to equal the 300 mg of caffeine per day considered moderate consumption by the Food and Drug Administration.
DECAFFEINATE YOUR TEA AT HOME
Avoid commercially packaged teas labeled "decaffeinated." Many decaffeinated teas use chemicals to remove caffeine. If you wish to lower the caffeine level of your tea naturally, it is best to do it yourself--without the use of chemicals.
Because caffeine is highly water-soluble, 80-90% of tea's caffeine is released in the first 30 seconds of brewing. Therefore, caffeine-sensitive tea-drinkers can lower the caffeine in their cup (and avoid the chemicals used in commercial decaffeinating processes) simply by 'washing' the caffeine from their tea following 3 easy steps:
(1) brew tea for 30 seconds
(2) discard water
(3) use the 'decaffeinated' leaves & brew as normal
Even commercially decaffeinated teas still contains a few milligrams of caffeine. We recommend that people with extreme sensitivities choose only herbal teas that come from plants that do not contain any caffeine at all. For example, Octavia Tea's Rooibos and Chamomile both come from plants that occur 100% caffeine-free in nature.
