On page 171 Prophetess of Health states that “charges that she also imbibed a little tea were stoutly denied.” Any reader of Counsels on Diet and Foods is fully informed on the point by Ellen White herself in a letter she penned in 1888: CBPH 77.15
I have not bought a penny’s worth of tea for years. Knowing its influence, I would not dare to use it, except in cases of severe vomiting when I take it as a medicine, but not as a beverage. CBPH 78.1
I am not guilty of drinking any tea except red-clover-top tea, and if I liked wine, tea, and coffee, I would not use these health-destroying narcotics, for I prize health and I prize a healthful example in all these things. I want to be a pattern of temperance and of good works to others.—Letter 19, 1888 (CDF 490). CBPH 78.2