Timeline for Why does caffeine taste bitter when added to tea?
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| Jan 25, 2017 at 11:47 | answer | added | Trixie Wolf | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 20:09 | answer | added | Mihail Malostanidis | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 20:05 | answer | added | Tony Arra | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 19:09 | comment | added | bytecode77 | It says that theanine is relaxing, unlike caffeine. So it's something different from what I want. I'll try salt as suggested in the comments of the answer. | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 17:47 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | @bytecode77 Completely different structure. Both black and green tea contain caffeine and theanine. The ratio varies between the two types. You can find a lot of woo about theanine, but there's a hard kernal of research down at the bottom of it. See: scholar.google.com/… | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 16:45 | comment | added | bytecode77 | Theanine? So there is at least some remote truth about the "Theine" myth, some people keep talking about. I thought black tea contained caffeine... Is Theanine a caffeine analouge or is that something entirely different? | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | Energy drinks usually have some awful tart/sweet flavor that masks the bitterness. If you're good with adding pure chemicals to your tea, consider theanine instead. It's an amino acid rather than an alkaloid, so not bitter. Found in both green and black tea, it's somewhat like caffeine in that it'll increase alertness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 16:18 | vote | accept | bytecode77 | ||
| Jan 24, 2015 at 16:09 | answer | added | Doug | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 15:47 | history | asked | bytecode77 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |