How Much Tea And Coffee Do You Drink

[emmie]

I have been wondering whether to cut down as i drink about 4
cups of coffee in a day and stop before 4pm.
Is 4 too many?

[goodgoalie]

I'd say 4 cups a day is definitely not too many. Have a look at the info here: https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeinated-coffee-the-anti-cancer-wonder-drug

[emmie]

very interesting, i thought i was over doing it a bit.

[goodgoalie]

Difficult to get a good cup of tea in Malta, though, Clarion!

[Baldric]

Coffee only, don't do tea, 3 cups a day before 13:00.

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps ten cups of tea per day, half of them decaffeinated.

I can't drink real coffee, but I start the day with an instant decaff coffee.

[mikey4444]

I have a cup of strong REAl coffee first thing in the morning, around 06:30 'ish, but then no more. Endless cups of tea though, although not normally after 18:00 !

[emmie]

I can't stand tea, just the smell makes me heave, so i will stick to coffee for now.

[Buenchico]

I'm constantly drinking tea at home. (I make another mug almost as soon as I've finished the first one). I hardly ever drink coffee at home nowadays (although I tend to opt for coffee when I'm 'eating out' - which usually means a local burger van!)

However in my college days I was drinking up to 30 mugs of coffee per day, often with three heaped teaspoonfuls of Nescafé in each of them. So that's the equivalent of up to 90 mugs per day. (I understand that the fatal dose for caffeine is around 130 cups per day but, apart from not sleeping very much, I didn't seem to suffer any adverse effects).

After I left college I drank less coffee but seemed to almost live on Pro-Plus caffeine tablets.

So lots of caffeine doesn't seem to have done me too much harm. (My blood pressure is a little on the high side these days, although not particularly abnormal for a sedentary guy in his mid-60s, which is partly why I've switched from coffee to tea - but I still need my caffeine fix!)

[ummmm]

Most days 1 a day.

I used to drink loads but gave up for lent and I was so ill. I don't know if it was the caffeine that made me ill or the sugar.

Never going to chance it again.

[goodgoalie]

Never been to Malta, Clarion, but elsewhere in Europe I've usually had to settle for horrible Lipton teabags. Yeugggh!

[sunny-dave]

Pint mug of tea first thing - made in a pot with two kenya teabags. Usually another smaller mug at teatime.

'Real' coffee from beans - using a bean-to-cup espresso machine but running a mugful usually - at least two mugs a day - I don't fret about the time - doesn't seem to keep me awake of a night.

[ducksie]

A mug of tea in the morning with breakfast, catching up on e-mails and post, some days I meet friends for coffee around 11ish and once home, unless I have some one visiting I won't have more tea until maybe late evening or maybe a hot chocolate depending on what the weather's like, I drink too many soft drinks

[MallyJ]

I don't drink tea.....ever! I drink around 6 cups of coffee a day...2 strong ones for breakfast. No problem with that..and had no problem with givng it up for 6 months. My grandmother was French..the coffee pot was on all day and the resultant drink was etremely strong....she drank 10 plus cups a day and lived to be 97.....Don't worry. Your intake of coffee is not at all high.

[choux]

Buckets of coffee. Wish I had a larger coffee filter in the mornings. Tend to slow down a bit in the afternoon but it picks up again in the evening.

[dance2trance]

Yes I believe that you are drinking too much. The NHS I imagine recommends no more than 1 cup of tea or coffee per year. Please think of your health and drink warm water. Your heart will collapse probably if you persist in your mad recklessness. Please please please consult your doctor today!

[Cloverjo]

Lol at dance2trance.
Emmie, I don't think 4 cups of coffee a day is too much.
I don't drink coffee any more. I have 2 or 3 cups of green tea at work, if anyone offers me a drink. I don't bother at home.

[Mamyalynne]

About 8 mugs of tea and 2 cappuccinos as a rule.