[StoneAge]

You might want to try Yerba Mate- I prefer it to green tea. I don't remember the nutritional content of green tea, but off the top of my head Mate has a good mineral content, potassium magnesium, iron etc.

When I drink it, it gives me a pleasant invigorated feeling. I was never a coffee drinker, so I can't compare it, but friends who have had both say that it is has a much more pleasant, less jittery effect than coffee.

I personally like the ritualized tradtional process of drinking it from a gourd with others. I work as a wilderness trip leader in souther Utah so myself and other instructor drink it when we are together a lot- it was introduced to us by a former instructor from South America (where Mate is from).

When I drink a lot in one sitting I notice a drying of my sinuses.

Funny aside- I was at a primitive skills gaterhing with a new friend who was deaf. We ran into a woman who knew sign language and asked my friend if he would like m-a-t-e. The look on his face was priceless.