When I first reviewed this tea I was a little perplexed because I really enjoyed it….and yet I didn’t really feel like drinking any more. A hour after I posted the review I found out why…caffeine! I assumed it was because I had a couple of teas that day and overdid it. So I waited for a day when I could have this after I woke up. Same thing: headache starting with the second steep then jitters later. I looked up if the tea flowers were adding caffeine but it turns out they only have a little caffeine.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12568558
Sorry, behind a paywall. I didn’t get to look at anything but the abstract myself so I don’t know their methods or what they mean by “various teas”.
I even found a site that was selling tea flowers as “the only non-caffeinated tea truely from Camilla sinensis”… Of course later in the same page it also mentions containing “very little caffeine”. Not exactly the same thing :/ But when your selling that much BS I guess it doesn’t matter.
So it’s not the flowers but at 1 bud + leaf it’s a bit tippier than most of the blacks I’m used to. I guess I’ll find out when I branch out more, I guess I’ll be sure when I try a golden tipped tea to take it easy. This one I guess I’ll only be having in moderation.
