Teabag Tuesday: Do Mormons drink herbal or decafinated tea?

9 responses so far ↓

• 1 wackowoman // Aug, 2008

  yes

• 2 phrog // Aug, 2008

  some do.

  more info here - http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=728c1f26d596b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1

• 3 Sebastian P. // Aug, 2008

  Teabag. lol.

• 4 Chris B // Aug, 2008

  Herbal definitely, I visited some of my wife’s Mormon relatives and was given some delicious ginger and cinnamon herbal tea. I would not think they would have a problem with decaffeinated tea but you had better listen to Mormons for that.

  BTW, the tea and coffee thing is definitely not for health motives. In Utah they more than make up for any health benefits of that with a delicious but wickedly fattening “fry sauce”, which is made of ketchup and mayonnaise.

• 5 wolveswind // Aug, 2008

  Is it tea bag Tuesday already?
  Time to get on Xbox live and start the tea bagging :).

• 6 Elly G // Aug, 2008

  For many LDS members it is a personal choice. We live by the ‘word of wisdom’ which is a guideline to the intake of health promoting food and drink substances into your body and is specific about some you don’t take in. It is obvious the damage that drugs, alcohol, tabacco, etc..including caffine does to your body. The Word of Wisdom is not a commandment but is more common sense given before science understood the damage these things to do us. God already knew and was just giving us a heads up. I love natural teas. Many natural teas are actually used for medicinal purposes also. Did you know that caffine can be used as an antistringent to pull poisons and infectious materil from a wound? But if left unchecked in your body.. ie you stomach.. it can have the opposite affect and you will become addicted to it with other complications.

  Decaffinated tea is another subject. Many of us do drink it in moderation. But what a lot of people don’t know is that even when you get a decaf coffee or tea or latte.. 1/4 of the caffine content is still there. It is not as easy to extracdt 100% as the public is led to believe. Hope this helps.

• 7 ? // Aug, 2008

  No, why you ask?

• 8 Isolde // Aug, 2008

  If you observe the Word of Wisdom, you may drink herbal tea, but not decaffeinated. Caffeine is not the reason tea is restricted. There are chemicals including tannins in tea. Place denture material or porcelain in a cup of tea over night and see what happens.

• 9 Mary Redshirt // Aug, 2008

  I'm a Latter Day Saint–giving up tea was the hardest thing for me to do when I converted and then reconverted after being inactive. Especially iced tea. It was really terrible because I liked it so much.

  But I do believe in the Word of Wisdom. So I wanted to comply.

  When going out to eat—I do not really like sweet things, so soda is out of the question. What is there really else to drink besides water? Well, water–as a Native American, we are told the water is the "blood of the earth" (that has nothing to do with Mormonism, btw) and that it is the best thing to drink. So I have learned to enjoy a nice cool glass of water instead of iced tea.

  When I want something hot to drink, I get this stuff from the Japanese Market made out of brown rice or barley and that makes a real nice, warm comforting tea.

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