Decaffeinating Tea

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So, you are sensitive to caffeine just like I am. How do you decaffeinate the tea? I like to buy my tea as it is and take care of it myself. You brew your tea at the temperature that is specified. The best way to decaf black tea is to brew it for thirty to sixty seconds and then dumping out the first brew, and using the remaining tea leaves, adding more hot water, brew it for the three to five minutes. Your second cup is completely, not completely, ninety percent caffeine free. That is actually less caffeine than a decaffeinated cup of coffee. But when you move toward Oolongs or Greens, what I encourage you to do is most Americans I have met, I live in America and most people I know drink coffee. You might not be as sensitive to caffeine as you think you are because a cup of black tea has half of that of a cup of coffee, a regular cup of coffee. So, green tea might have none according to your body because it is so used to the crazy concentration of caffeine that green tea, Oolong tea might not have very much. So, you do not have to worry about the caffeination. But, if you have to decaffeinate green tea or Oolong tea, do not do it for too long. For blacks, up to about a minute is fine. But, for Oolong or green, stay within the thirty second. Fifteen seconds, thirty seconds is enough to take away some of that caffeine.

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