OT: Decaf Tea

[Barnet Seagull]

Anyone drink the stuff? As far as I can tell it's incredibly weak and tastes nothing like tea - but then it's only Tetley I've tried.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Stick with the real thing or go for Green Tea.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

No caffeine, no point

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Stick with the real thing or go for Green Tea.

Green tea. That's for ladies isn't it?

 

[Lokki 7]

Green tea. That's for ladies isn't it?

Unlike decaf tea which is for real men, right?

 

[Box of Frogs]

Mrs Frogs drank the stuff when she was preggers, but then she likes her tea like gnats pee anyway. As soon as she had dropped the sprogs, she was back on 'full strength' Typhoo!

 

[defrocked priest]

Decaf tea? Innit that like drinking alcohol free beer?

 

[aftershavedave]

you're better off with naturally low caffeine tea like redbush.

ya big wus.

 

[Superphil]

Ooh, Red Bush is a bit minging, don't like that. I do drink Tetley Decaf, I don't think it tastes that bad. Green Tea is lovely, but you don't really want to put milk in it.

 

[Adam Virgo's Shirt]

I've got a box of Co-Op decaf. I think it does taste like tea, and it's ok, but I find myself using 2 teabags to get a decent strength cuppa! I imagine that rather defeats the object!

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

 

[Nottseagull]

I've got a box of Co-Op decaf. I think it does taste like tea, and it's ok, but I find myself using 2 teabags to get a decent strength cuppa! I imagine that rather defeats the object!

Er no. 2 x 0 = 0.

 

[Hungry Joe]

I drink decaf tea. I'd recommend Yorkshire or Twinings.

 

[Adam Virgo's Shirt]

Er no. 2 x 0 = 0.

Well I was told decaff doesn't = 0 caff, but is in fact 'less caff'. That's why I made the point that if I use 2 x decaff then I may be equalling a normal tea bag's caffeine quota which defeats the object.

 

[Hungry Joe]

Well I was told decaff doesn't = 0 caff, but is in fact 'less caff'. That's why I made the point that if I use 2 x decaff then I may be equalling a normal tea bag's caffeine quota which defeats the object.

To be allowed to call itself decaf any product with caffeine must have at least 97% of it removed. Some decaf teas have been found to have higher levels of the antioxidant flavanoids than regular tea so are just as good for you, if not better. As for the taste; there is a distinct taste to caffeinated tea that you can't quite replicate in decaf but as I said, the better brands come very close. Avoid Tetley, PG etc as they taste crap in comparison.

 

[Nottseagull]

Nobody has posted to say that it doesn't quench their first. I find that if you drink enough, it seems to have alcohol-like dehydration properties - or is it just me?