Many of us have heard this tea "fact," and indeed, many tea companies (and Wikipedia) also espouse it as an easy method to remove most of the caffeine in your tea leaves at home.
By steeping your tea for 20-30 seconds, you can remove somewhere between 80%-90% of the caffeine content. Simply pour out the caffeinated brew and re-infuse the tea as you normally would and voila! A nearly decaffeinated cup of tea.
Not so fast. Turns out this one isn't true. By steeping your tea for 30 seconds you'll remove almost a whopping 10% of the caffeine in it. This is good news for me, because I'm dead tired today and I thought my second infusion would have very little caffeine in it, but for those who can't have too much caffeine for whatever reason, this can be a most irritating thing.
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By steeping your tea for 20-30 seconds, you can remove somewhere between 80%-90% of the caffeine content. Simply pour out the caffeinated brew and re-infuse the tea as you normally would and voila! A nearly decaffeinated cup of tea.
Not so fast. Turns out this one isn't true. By steeping your tea for 30 seconds you'll remove almost a whopping 10% of the caffeine in it. This is good news for me, because I'm dead tired today and I thought my second infusion would have very little caffeine in it, but for those who can't have too much caffeine for whatever reason, this can be a most irritating thing.
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