Comments on: How Tea is Decaffeinated

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:52:09 +0000

Lipton bag said Decaffeinated Naturally,
Does it mean zero caffine?
Or close to zero?

Thank you Dr. Tea
JJ

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:56:00 +0000

Thank you for posting this article about decaffeinating green tea. It is something I would like to link to on my Teafox blog. I have a small business importing and selling high quality Sencha and other green teas direct from a small family farm in Shizuoka, Japan.

www.teafox.com

By: sorina

sorina — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:00 +0000

You have a very nice blog, good post…keep up the good job

By: Trey Winston

Trey Winston — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:05:00 +0000

I agree completely. Talk about tea abuse. Tea doesn’t contain that much caffeine anyway, certainly if compared to coffee.

In fact, I recently read about how coffee is decaffeinated, and that process seems much nicer: The beans are soaked in water, so that the caffeine and many of the substances that give coffee its flavor dissolve into the water. The water is then strained through active coal, which binds the caffeine, but nothing else. The water that emerges contains practically no caffeine, but all the other substances. Then the water is mixed back with the beans and evaporates, leaving the coffee with all the good chemicals, but not the caffeine.

Er, sorry about this long, off-topic rant, but your description of the barbaric treatment of our beloved tea got me all fired up