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I've heard that green tea is quite the debate when it comes to the word of wisdom, much liked caffeinated soda. I've heard some people say it's fine to drink, like herbal tea, and other's say its not. I've always heard that green tea is good for you. So is drinking it breaking the Word Of Wisdom? Or is it arm in arm with herbal tea and okay to consume? Thanks for your input in advance!

I found the following information (from The History of Tea and wikipedia) interesting: The type of tea known to be used in the late 1700's in Boston was exclusively black tea (not green), which Boston-identity I'm sure was known by the importers who used Boston as the #1 place to import it, and imported tee likely wasn't commonly used until the 1800's at which time it is unlikely that the reputation and association with *black* tea had changed among the importers of tea who wanted to supply what was in demand.It was generally regarded by the "morally astute" in both the 1700's and 1800's as being unhealthy for you. Note that at least into the late 1700's we known this was black tea which today is now confirmed to be nutritionally far inferior to green tea.In 1826 English Quaker John Horniman introduces the first retail tea in sealed, in ... wait for it ... "lead-lined packages"! Hmmmm... *softly tapping head as I think to myself about inspired prophets and stuff*By 1904 a sudden shift to green tea was so significant (5:1) that it garnered a footnote in tea history, which has since then been by far the more popular variant of the two types.The chemical makeup of black tea and green tea is very different (actually got this from wikipedia) due to both the fermentation and the temperature at which each is processed thereby forming different chemicals in the tea. One could justifiably even call black tea the hot drink, and green tea the not-nearly-as-hot drink ... if both were made at the same time the green tea would only be considered a warm drink by the time the black tea was cool enough to drink. We do not however have any record whether or not this was indeed the practice.All very interesting to me.Last time someone said "what should I say in my TR interview cause my doctors said drink green tea" it seemed to me half the contributors were on the verge of apostacy (comments like "You should lie! Lie your pants off to the Bishop and Stk President."). I'm somewhat intrigued to see if most everyone is still on the road to lie their way to hell just so they can make sure they'll get a recommend ... I mean, gee if that's how you feel the why would you even care? Anyway, I thought I'd see if green tea was really a well known "hot drink" at the time. I really still don't know (almost my findings above makes it seems doubtful), but based on the above data I'd say there were really good reasons (the lead-lined bags for one) that tea in general was part of the W of W!