Best Tea and Honey Teas and Caffeine
White tea, like these "Snow Bud" leaves, have more caffeine than other teas
We all know that a good cup of tea will perk you up. This is due to the presence of caffeine, a stimulant that occurs naturally in the leaves of Camilla Sinensis, the tea plant. Tea leaves, in fact, have more caffeine than the seeds of the coffee plant! The preparation of the two brews, however, ends up draining most of the caffeine out of tea, while coffee beans processed into espresso are famous for their “jolt.” Of the varieties of tea, white tea is perhaps the most strongly caffeinated, though the bitterness of the drug is hidden by the dominant earthy flavor of the premium tea. Green tea and black tea are lightly caffeinated. Of all the herbs, yerba mate is perhaps the most caffeinated. Rooibus tea from South Africa has no caffeine at all. For more information of caffeination, try checking some of our notes on all the different and exotic teas we have available at our website, Red Leaf Tea!