Yaupon Holly is a native North American plant that contains caffeine. Was traditionally used by Indians as a tea or coffee. Also used during the civil war as a substitute.
I have found it around old homeplace ruins in the deep south. It is also a common landscaping plant. Need to plant some around the house.
I’ve bought some yaupon tea bags before. It was actually pretty good. I like black tea, and don’t like coffee though, so people expecting a coffee taste may not like it. It’s very comparable to black tea, IMO. I also have a yaupon bush in my yard, but never tried processing and ingesting it.
You know, some people actually like the taste of coffee. I don’t know what flavors caffeine pills come in, but i doubt that they are comparable to a nice, hot cup of cappuccino in the morning, and feeling the caffeine and the warmth while waking up.
If you’re after that bitter taste, chicory is an option. You can compose it with milk and everything like coffee. The taste is a bit different, more herbal (which makes sense…). Sometimes I add a bit of cinnamon to it, that marries very well.
But it has no caffeine.
I almost fully replaced my coffee consumption already.
One of its benefits is you can totally have a cup before sleeping!
Coffee and tea both have a slightly different buzz from one another and caffeine pills IMO. At the very least caffeine pills definitely hit way faster, and that can be too much for those sensitive.
I do think coffee itself is a luxury that everyone is used to having. And to be fair, it’s been dirt cheap for quite a while. A lot of the world gets by on instant coffee and basic tea, though.
Yaupon Holly is a native North American plant that contains caffeine. Was traditionally used by Indians as a tea or coffee. Also used during the civil war as a substitute.
I have found it around old homeplace ruins in the deep south. It is also a common landscaping plant. Need to plant some around the house.
How does it taste?
I’ve actually never tried it, but, it’s described as pleasant. You have to roast the stems and leaves.
I grow it, but I’ve only drank it once. It’s not too different from Yerba Maté. Which is to say -it tastes like an herbal tea made of holly leaves.
Eugh, maté is an acquired taste that I can’t acquire
https://youtube.com/shorts/CS9BeMovHk8
apparently, it’s bad!
I’ve bought some yaupon tea bags before. It was actually pretty good. I like black tea, and don’t like coffee though, so people expecting a coffee taste may not like it. It’s very comparable to black tea, IMO. I also have a yaupon bush in my yard, but never tried processing and ingesting it.
it makes a nice tea. a local company in my area sells it at farmers markets. https://lostpinesyaupontea.com/
If you really need caffeine, just take caffeine pills.
Coffee is a very inefficient and expensive way to imbibe caffeine.
Sometimes it’s about the preparation ritual, not necessarily just the caffeine.
Well, if that ‘preparation ritual’ is worth paying 1000% more, then people should understand that’s why they’re doing it.
We gotta get this “it’s for the caffeine” idea out of people’s heads if it’s not really for the caffeine.
You know, some people actually like the taste of coffee. I don’t know what flavors caffeine pills come in, but i doubt that they are comparable to a nice, hot cup of cappuccino in the morning, and feeling the caffeine and the warmth while waking up.
If you’re after that bitter taste, chicory is an option. You can compose it with milk and everything like coffee. The taste is a bit different, more herbal (which makes sense…). Sometimes I add a bit of cinnamon to it, that marries very well. But it has no caffeine. I almost fully replaced my coffee consumption already. One of its benefits is you can totally have a cup before sleeping!
It is common to mix it with coffee by the way!
Coffee and tea both have a slightly different buzz from one another and caffeine pills IMO. At the very least caffeine pills definitely hit way faster, and that can be too much for those sensitive.
I do think coffee itself is a luxury that everyone is used to having. And to be fair, it’s been dirt cheap for quite a while. A lot of the world gets by on instant coffee and basic tea, though.