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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tea’s okay, but it doesn’t create that warm, lovey feeling I get from coffee. It just doesn’t satisfy the way coffee does. Probably because tea has lower caffeine content?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    afaik, most tea has a higher caffeine content than coffee.

    i can't explain that effect either. I feel like coffee is less "watery" than tea tho - is there any data on the viscosity of coffee? maybe it has something to do with reduced surface tension

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  • Prepared coffee definitely has more caffeine than tea. Here's one example source showing the difference. It seems that although raw tea leaves contain a higher caffeine content than raw coffee beans, coffee is prepared in a way that extracts more caffeine into the drink.

    The numbers on that link show that:

    "An average cup (220 ml) of black tea packs 50 mg of caffeine but can contain more" (if steeped for longer)

    "An average 8-ounce (237-ml) cup of coffee contains 90 to 200 mg of caffeine."

    There's a lot more information on that link, but it seems that prepared coffee generally contains somewhere between 2-4x as much caffeine as the same amount of prepared tea.

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