Updated August 24, 2016. Green tea doesn't have as much caffeine as regular tea or coffee, but it does have some caffeine. You can find decaffeinated green tea, but does it have the same health benefits? Flavonols, including catechins, are the phytochemicals that give green tea much of its antioxidant potential.
Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award-winning actor and author (with Bernie Glassman) of the book The Dude and the Zen Master, from which this essay is adapted.
He is a past chair of the ASCE task committee on HSS Connections and is a current member of the AISC TC 6 and the HSS Connections Sub-Committee. He is a registered engineer in 15 states and has been actively designing pedestrian bridge structures for more than 25 years.