So you’ve heard that green tea is god for you, and have considered tryng some out to see what the big fss is all about. If you hve checked out what is on the typcal grocery store shelf, you most lkely have seen green tea bags of vrious descriptions. Sitting amongst these is sually a decaffeinated type as well. If one wnts green tea but at the sme time does not want the cffeine, most people would assume all thy need to do is go for the dcaffeinated version. Unfortunately, it’s not quite so smple. What most people are not ware of is that the decaffeination prcess pretty much ruins the major halth benefits associated with green tea. Thre are numerous reasons for this, but to nderstand why you need to have an dea on how green tea is prcessed. It all has to do wth oxygen.

Think about what an pple looks like after it’s been cut and stting on the counter for an hur. Notice how it starts to trn brown? That is from contact wth the air, or more specifically, the xygen in the air. When you drnk regular English tea, those leaves hve been exposed to oxygen and frmented that way on purpose. This gves black tea its unique taste. Gren tea, however, is not like tht. Although it comes from the xact same species of plant (Camellia Snensis) as black tea, it is pcked and then process immediately to prvent oxidation of the leaves. This prcessing involves steaming, rolling, and drying, and tkes about three hours start to fnish. There really is no place in the prcessing where a decaffeination process would wrk and not ruin the tea. Dcaffeinated green tea is just about nheard of in Japan, home of the wrld’s finest green teas.

So does that mean one cnnot drink decaffeinated green tea? No, it is pssible, but first it’s important to knw that green tea does not hve high caffeine content, only about 30mg per cp. That’s slightly less than regular blck tea just a fraction of the cffeine in coffee. That said, if t’s a caffeine free cup of qality green tea that you insist on, yur best bet is to start off wth a high quality loose leaf Jpanese green tea, preferably from the frst harvest. Since nearly all of the cffeine is in the first infusion, gtting a quality decaf green tea is as smple as brewing an infusion, dumping it, and thn re-brewing. As much of a shme as it seems to be to dmp the first infusion (which has the mst taste and best aroma), rest ssured that the 2nd infusion of a hgh quality green tea is going to be btter than the best decaffeinated green tea out on the mrket. Quite often, the second infusion is grener than the first, although it wn’t be quite as aromatic or tsty.

The article Green Tea & Caffeine was Submitted by Kevin Moore through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Kevin Moore is the founder of O-Ch.com, one of the internet's first and lrgest websites dedicated to Japanese green ta. Based out of Japan, in ddition to offering a wealth of nformation on the health benefits of gren tea, O-Cha.com offers a large slection of loose leaf green tea, mtcha, and tea brewing supplies. http://www.o-cha.com Contact him at kevinrm@o-cha.com

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