Coffee is notorious for staining teeth, so switching to tea could make your smile brighter, especially if you stick with white or green tea. “Your teeth won’t get stained as much, which people often don’t think about,” says Sonya Angelone, RDN, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, in San Francisco.

Depending on how sensitive your body is to changes and how much caffeine you’re used to getting, you could feel withdrawal symptoms if you cut down during your switch from coffee to tea. It usually happens when you have a significant change like cutting it out, but it could happen as well if you just cut down. After your body gets used to the change, though, those symptoms will go away.

Drip coffee removes compounds called cafestol and kahweol, but unfiltered coffee, like French pressed coffee or espresso, retains them. Those compounds may increase LDL ('bad') cholesterol, which could up your risk for heart attack and stroke. Swap out those coffee drinks for tea, though, and your cholesterol may improve.

It could be from the caffeine, or from the socializing people do when sipping a cup of Joe, but studies, including one published in 2018 in the journal 'Nutrients', have shown coffee can improve mood and lower your risk for depression. Making the switch to tea could make you lose out on those benefits. “Even if it were the caffeine, it would mean you’d need twice as much tea,” says Angelone.