The health perks of your caffeine fix

Tea or coffee? To find out which is healthiest, Peta Bee looks at the science behind the benefits of the leaf and the bean.

A DECADE ago, we were the per-capita tea-drinking capital of the world. Nobody guzzled more of it than was consumed in Ireland. Now, though, we have developed a taste for coffee, too.

On average we get through the equivalent of 550 espressos each in a year and consume more java jolts than even the Colombians.