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Tea and caffeine, or theine? Let's discover the questions and answers about tea and caffeine together. One of the questions that we are asked most often by the customers of our online tea shop are: Does tea contain caffeine and how much caffeine does this tea contain? Or: which teas have more or less caffeine? Is it true that green tea contains less caffeine than black tea? Caffeine and theine are the same molecule Preliminary note: caffeine and theine are the same molecule. When tea (P.S. have you ever wondered what is the correct way to write the word tea? Read it in our new article!) ..

So Let's start by clarifying a bit: let's begin by saying that teina does not exist; or rather it is used as a synonym for caffeine. So if we want to be correct and a bit picky, we must say that tea does not contain theine but caffeine. It seems quite clear as a concept, right? Caffeine, as everyone knows, is an active ingredient like many others found in plants. Let's say that this active ingredient is found in not many plants: coffee, tea, guayusa, yerba mate, and some other medicinal herbs, but in very low quantities. The plants that have the most are coffee (as many may have guessed) an..