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[The Ripper]

A dietician I spoke with recently tried telling me that I shouldn't consume caffeinated green tea because it would dehydrate me. However, up until now I've always been under the impression that even high-caffeine beverages such as coffee still provide a net-hydrating effect as the amount of water consumed with it outweighs whatever dehydrating effect the caffeine might have.

So green tea and white tea - which are particularly low in caffeine to begin with and being comprised entirely water - seem like very unlikely candidates to actually dehydrate the individual consuming them.

Is what she saying at all possible? Even when consuming large amounts of it?

Typically I try to drink a pot or two of tea per day plus some mineral water and never find myself feeling dehydrated.

Edited by The Ripper, 06 February 2015 - 04:13 AM.

[Kalliste]

I drink a lot of green tea but also water so I'm not sure. Anecdotally I have heard it stated on a number of occasions that there exist many places in the world where people effectively only drink tea (cultural reasons, plain non boiled water being disase ridden and so on) and those cultures presumably do fine. But perhaps they get water from eating vegetables or some other source.