Tea And Factors That Affect Their Caffeine

Tea and factors that affect their caffeine

There are many beliefs in terms of whether tea contains caffeine, many of them based on the lack of information and others on trademarks that intend to use it to increase its sales. Next we will see what the truth is about these myths, and if tea really contains caffeine, if some have more than others and if we can differentiate them. According to your caffeine tolerance we will give you some recommendations to take into account. The quality of tea is also important since in shops some more economical ones can be found in bags and others of better quality in strands.

What is caffeine?

Caffeine is legally accepted psychotropic and is consumed worldwide, 90% of the world’s population. There are few plants that contain caffeine one of them is tea, coffee, mate or Guaraná among others, which have been consumed by much of the world for thousands of years. At first it was thought that only coffee contained caffeine, hence its name. Later it has been discovered that tea is also called tein.

Caffeine has been very studied by the effects it can produce on humanity. Taking it with prudence it is healthy and has some benefits proven by scientists, some of them are the positive effects it has to prevent some degree from some diseases. His main function and what is best known is because he removes the dream and therefore dispossessed us. But what really happens is that the caffeine molecule is very similar to the one that is responsible for making us feel tired and the supplant cheating the brain.

It can even happen to us that when consuming it regularly we produce dependency syndrome.

If tea contains caffeine, what amounts are advisable to consume?

The amount of caffeine recommended per day is 200 to 400mg in healthy adults and non -pregnant women. This is equivalent to approximately 3 to 4 coffee or 6 to 7 cups of tea. These amounts will depend on the type of coffee or tea consumed, since it is not the same an aged toasted olong tea than a matcha tea. For tea, measurements are 2.5 grams of tea for a cup.  Some factors can affect if your tea has caffeine in greater or lesser quantity. Some of them are: type of culture, age age, water temperature and infusion time, cultivation station, sun exposure, tea shape, roasted and aging and post-festival.

As we have seen there are many factors that affect the amount of caffeine that can contain tea. The most important thing is the resistance to caffeine in your body and not overcome from the recommended daily cups.