Choose Your Decaffeinated Carefully
Decaffeinated green tea contains less than 5 milligrams of caffeine a cup. For many individuals, it can seem an attractive alternative. However, speak to most experienced tea drinkers, and you will find that most of them prefer naturally caffeinated tea.
There are 3 reasons why decaffeinated green tea is not the preferred choice of many tea drinkers.
First, studies conducted by the US Department of Agriculture found that decaffeinated green tea contains less than a third of the catechins in regular tea. This is bad news. Catechins are the main antioxidants. Without catechins, you are missing out on green tea's health benefits.