Whenever you visit someone and you are to choose between a cup of coffee and tea offered by your host, an idea conceived after reading the list of comparisons on the pros and cons of each beverage mentioned below would help you to decide your pick much better.
Tea | Coffee |
| Simple steps involved to extract the best out of any tea leaves are: Adding tea leaves to the boiled water, Infusion of tea leaves, and sipping. | Coffee requires much more work and expenses to get a better taste. It involves: Grinding of coffee beans. Using an expensive coffee machine.
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| Teas taste much better. They are a spectrum of aromas and flavours available for teas around the globe. Teas require least, if not no additives like the sugar to eliminate bitterness.
| Coffees are bitter to taste and cannot be taken without any additives like sugar.
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| Caffeine content in tea is considerably less or almost nil in most teas. | Caffeine and coffee go hand in hand whereas you cannot eliminate one without the other. Caffeine in coffee is five to six time more than in teas.
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| Teas are far less expensive compared to that of coffee. Taking the number of infusions involved, the costs are further reduced.
| Coffee requires expensive machinery. |
| Teas have multiple health benefits and the list of benefits associated with drinking teas unending. It is an alternate choice for healthy living.
| Coffee has minuscule health benefits. |
| Tea drinking has become a hobby and since it dates back to centuries, the history on teas and tea ceremonies make tea drinking a deep-rooted culture.
| Coffee has no such advantages. |
| Tea is ranked second as the after water as the most drunk beverage, which shows that majority of beverage drinkers prefer teas.
| Most coffee drinkers belong to coffee producing regions.
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