Coffee and tea are the most consumed drinks to start the day. Coffee and tea can be prepared as hot or cold drinks. Each of them comes from some form of plant. Coffee comes from the coffee bean. It is then roasted and finally sent to consumers around the world to purchase at their leisure. The tea leaves are harvested and dried and are either packaged in individual bags or sent as dried fruit and leaves for use in a tea infuser. Many people choose to drink coffee or tea based on their personal preferences. The question that now arises is who really benefits from their consumption? While the average coffee lover drinks 23 gallons of coffee each year, a tea lover typically drinks 10.3 gallons per year. With this amount consumed each year, what effect does it have on the human body? Coffee is the first thing people associate with instant energy on a groggy morning. “In the United States, coffee is the king drink” (Reinke) Research has been conducted that has identified coffee as an addiction among people who consume large quantities of it. Coffee has been named as the main source of antioxidants. This is partly due to the amount consumed each day. Some of the antioxidants in coffee are quinines and chlorogenic acid. It also contains trigonelline, an antibacterial compound. This is where the coffee acquires its delicious aroma. Now let's take a step back and think about how much caffeine people consume. In an 8-ounce cup of coffee, it contains about 85 milligrams of caffeine. This is about double the amount that tea contains. Studies have shown that caffeine stimulates the brain and nervous system. This is where you feel that feeling of energy. After about the third cup, knees start bouncing, pens click, and people start doing laps around the office. Caffeine can become addictive if you drink too much of it. Coffee can become this addictive habit that people are unable to break. Although tea is considered healthier, it is the second most consumed morning drink. Why then? On an average day, only one in five American adults drink tea. The average tea drinker consumes more than twenty times more flavonoid antioxidants per day than non-tea drinkers. So, non-tea drinkers miss out on their daily dose of flavonoids. Caffeine in tea is not as much of a problem as in coffee.