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Originally Posted by waves
Not sure about the order of white and green -- someone else can confirm or correct.
Caffeine seems to be the main culprit, but mixed results indicate that it is not the only player. Coffee has been found to bother GERD more than tea. However, according to at least one study, while decaffeinated coffee produced fewer symptoms than regular coffee, no such difference was seen between regular and decaffeinated tea.
My regular "tea" is strong black tea. I do also drink other things (green tea, any of many herbals, broth, water) as the need or desire for them arises. I really don't do substitutions other than occasionally decaf for coffee (but never for tea).
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Not sure of the website but the info seems right to me:
http://ratetea.com/topic/caffeine-content-of-tea/21/
It is a widespread myth that black tea contains more caffeine than green tea, and another myth that white tea contains the least caffeine of all teas.
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Studies that have actually measured the caffeine content of a large number of different teas have consistently found that caffeine levels vary more among individual teas than across broad categories of tea such as black, white, green, oolong, or pu-erh.
A study published in 2005 in the Journal of Food Science listed, among other things, the caffeine content of 77 different teas, and found a broad range of caffeine content among both green and black teas.[4] Surprisingly, the tea in this study that was found to contain the most caffeine was a white tea, solidly dispelling the myth about white tea's caffeine content
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There are so many different factors influencing the caffeine content of tea, that it is hard to make accurate generalizations about the caffeine content of tea. Caffeine levels vary widely from one particular tea to the next. The only certain way to know with certainty the caffeine level of a particular tea is to test it in a laboratory.
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This I found interesting:
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Since the tips and tender young leaves are most vulnerable to insects, these parts of the plant are highest in caffeine; the older leaves are tougher and thus lower in caffeine
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