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How much caffeine is in tea?

How much caffeine is in tea?

We mainly get caffeine from drinking coffee, but also from tea! How much caffeine is in tea?

Our mini survey on Instagram shows that we are quite tea lovers. For example, 74 percent of our readers prefer tea to coffee. There are many health benefits to tea. And especially in tea from a tea leaf. Because research shows that tea drinkers live longer and healthier.

But tea also contains caffeine, not nearly as much as coffee, but perhaps something to take into account, because too much caffeine is bad for your sleep, for example. We found out exactly how much caffeine is in tea.

Caffeine in tea

A cup of black or green tea (125ml) contains 30 milligrams of caffeine.

Caffeine in coffee

By comparison:in a cup of filter coffee of the same size, that's 85 milligrams.

Caffeine in chocolate

There are 14 milligrams of caffeine in 30 grams of dark chocolate. There are 3 milligrams of caffeine in 30 grams of milk chocolate.