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All teas contain caffeine (not including herbal teas of course), however, green tea has less caffeine that black tea or coffee. The caffeine content of oolong teas is comparable to green teas.

In one of the newsletters Heather says "Beverages with caffeine - black or green tea, soda pop, coffee - can actually dehydrate you further, and this is on top of the fact that they also contain ingredients that are outright harmful to IBS. Coffee is such a strong GI irritant that it was the first deadly sin, while black tea contains tannins that can trigger acid reflux in susceptible people. Decaffeinated black or green tea may be more tolerable"

Perhaps in cooking where the amount of green tea will be relatively small when mixed with other ingredients it might not be as much of a problem.

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