• TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 months ago

    I tried switching to black tea a couple of years ago because I realized that coffee was making my anxiety worse, but fucking hell did tea give me the jitters. I think I just have a bad reaction to tannins in general and apparently black tea is super high in them.

    • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      9 months ago

      I had that, and still get it from time to time, but found that if I wait until I’ve eaten to drink tea that it feels fine.

      Coffee on an empty stomach is nothing, but strong tea on an empty stomach has me feeling like being assaulted at a molecular level

      • TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yeah it makes my teeth chatter, it’s very strange. I didn’t noticed a big difference between full vs. empty stomach but I wasn’t paying much attention to that either.

        I will say that most types of tea do this to me, to varying degrees. Black teas are the worst, green tea isn’t nearly as bad. I’ve had some Chinese white teas and I barely noticed any jitteriness, but those teas really aren’t very strong to begin with.

    • rambaroo@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Give white tea a try sometime. It has almost no tannins and less caffeine than black tea. The flavor is much lighter and more fruity

      • TheRtRevKaiser@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yeah! I think I mentioned it in another comment in this thread, but a friend of mine has recently gotten really into Gong Fu style tea and I’ve tried several white teas with him, and they didn’t give me that jittery feeling at all.

        • eethi@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          A heads up if you start making it yourself that you don’t want boiling water with white tea, it will burn it/make it bitter. It is delicious though!