HI Jim,

Tea has on average a caffeine contend of 2-4,average 3%(dry weight).
Best
Kalle

Space Cowboy schrieb:
> I just realized I have to guess at the amount of caffeine in a gram of
> tea. If there is an answer I don't know it. I think it would be a
> constant across the oxidation styles so the caffeine in a gram of
> Silver Needle would be in the ballpark of puerh making the caffeine in
> a cup a matter of brewing times and not leaf weight. This all started
> when my wife read that coffee has 200mg of caffeine in three cups of
> coffee which I assumed were 6oz each. I was drinking a mug of oolong
> at the time and I could approximate the gram weight to make the the tea
> but no clue to the caffeine level. My guess is 20mg of caffeine per
> gram of tea. I derived that from the fact I would make a 6oz cup with
> 2 grams of tea for a total of 6 grams for the three cups or 120ml
> caffeine which would be about half the given amount of coffee. What
> numbers have you seen for caffeine weight versus tea weight?
>
> Jim
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