Myth

Drinking tea causes dehydration

Fact

It’s a popular belief that tea is dehydrating because
it has caffeine, but the level of caffeine you get from
drinking moderate amounts of tea, even strong tea,
doesn’t dehydrate you. Tea is actually 99.5 percent
water and counts towards your daily fluid intake

Topic

Food & Nutrition

Label

Myth

URL

https://www.southwesthealthline.ca/healthlibrary_docs/nutritionmythsmarch2012.pdf