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To nitpick breakfast tea isn't a type of tea. There is English Breakfast Tea which is a specific blend of black tea and spices. Black tea usually have 50 mg of caffeine per cup, roughly half what coffee has. Oolong, Green, and White tea all have even less. Yerba Mate has more caffeine but that is a different plant than true tea.



None of the English/Irish/Scottish Breakfast Teas are spiced, they're blends but pure tea, and they do tend to feature Assams and other high-caffeine varieties.


I just did research on caffeine in tea, and the results are all over the place. One brand of Earl Grey can have twice as much caffeine as the other.

Even then, 50 is the upper bound if you seep the tea for 5 minutes, and it's still much less than coffee.




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