English Breakfast Tea?!
English Breakfast Tea?
I am an American (decaf coffee drinker) but on a recent trip to the UK I had English Breakfast Tea. It was delicious. I am looking buy some decaf tea. However, someone told me that English Breakfast Tea tastes gross if it is decaf. They told me the flavor completely changes. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? Also, does tea caffeine generally make you as wired as coffee caffeine? Any info will help :)
Answers:
Quite truthfully, there is no point in drinking decaffeinated tea. And, yes, decaffeinating tea ruins the flavour.
Although both coffee and tea contain caffeine, they react differently in the body, primarily because coffee contains an acidic oil which combines with the caffeine. Tea does not have the same acidic oil, so the caffeine acts differently.
By all means drink decaf coffee, but when you drink tea, drink the real thing. English Breakfast is a great choice.
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Former professional chef and lifelong tea drinker
The flavor is a little different, but it's up to you whether it's "gross" or not. Personally, I think it's fine.
brewed coffee has 60-120 mg caffeine, while tea has about 45 -50. I don't find decaf tea all that bad.
Breakfast tea is great
I like it. I like both the decaf & the regular. English (and the Irish) Breakfast are my favorites. I am an American, too, and sometimes have to look a bit harder to find it.
Oh, and I love the Prince of Wales tea, too!
I couldn't help you much in the decaf dept, but worst case scenario, if you can't find what you're looking for while shopping, you could always try looking online. The following site gives you a table re.caffeine content:
http://coffeefaq.com/site/node/22...
I drink both coffee and tea, and coffee sometimes gives me heart palpitations. I never have that with tea. I've actually never have seen decaf english breakfast tea, but the methods they use to decaffeinate tea are usually with water or some other chemical (sorry I forgot the name). And you need to know that there's still a little bit of caffeine in decaf tea or coffee. 4 mg instead of 20 for example.
I've always thought the decaf versions of green tea, and black tea tasted different. good luck.
Decaffeinated tea is a fairly new phenomena.
Unless you really do have a problem with caffeine then my feeling is go for the regular tea brands. The level of caffeine compared to coffee is very low.
And as the Airport shops all stock tea caddies for outbound visitors just get your mates to get it for you on their way back.
(Actually, you don't live in Boston do you? - Just a thought!!!!)
don`t touch decaf tea with a barge pole..it is vile.!