cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60110382
Unless I’m just going crazy, whenever I drink tea outside it has a slight aftertaste that I never get when I drink it elsewhere.
Edit to add, it has more taste, if that makes sense. It has a more complex taste.
As an American who wasn’t ever raised on tea of any kind (and I don’t like coffee) but is starting to really learn to love teas and tasanes (I’m open to suggestions, by the way!), I have to ask: how the hell do you manage to drink 8–10 cups per day without dying of dehydration? If I drink more than 3 cups a day I start to really feel dried out!
Caffeinated beverages don’t dehydrate you. Yes, caffeine has a mild diruetic effect, but it’s nowhere near enough to cancel out the water in the drink.
To be fair, although admittedly a nitpick, I will say I never said that the caffeine dehydrated you, just that the teas and tisanes do, the latter of which may or may not have caffeine.
That being said, I looked it up and yeah you’re right. The evidence does seem to demonstrate that the diuretic effect of the caffeine in teas not substantial enough to really affect hydration levels.
However, it does lead me to wonder why my body seems to dehydrate if I drink more 2 cups of tea in a day. Like, it doesn’t cause me to pee more (at least not more than an equivalent amount of straight water would cause me to pee); my body just dries out.
Raised on tea. Elixir of the gods. And the water in it is still water. I’m well hydrated.
For suggestions, a good standard daily tea is Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew (it has malt in the brew so tastes like Rich Tea biscuits), and good Northern Irish teas are Punjana and Nambarrie.
Thanks so much for the suggestions!
Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to try out Yorkshire Tea (I’ve heard they’re amazing), they don’t ship internationally, so as I live in the USA, I don’t think that’s an option for me. :C
Yay thank you!