Tasty boost to health benefits of green tea...
Today's post: Monday, 2-11-2008
In our last post, we put information that drinking tea helps to physically improve & speed up your body’s recovery from stress & added some related info about drinking tea for health.
And, in an earlier post, we suggested that people who find green tea too bland or aren’t fond of the taste of black tea might like it fine by adding some lemon juice. (It tastes more like tart lemonade if you do that.)
Earlier today I saw the article I’m posting below that says that adding lemon may give you as much as FIVE times as much of some of green tea’s health benefits.
This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, the Internet’s most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.
“Boost the Power of Your Tea With a Squeeze
By Kelley Herring
If you frequently enjoy a splash of citrus in your green tea, you're doing your body a favor.
New research from Purdue University, published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, shows that catechins - the primary antioxidants in green tea - are destroyed by digestion. In fact, less than 20 percent of these free-radical fighters remain by the time they've traversed your tract.
But the researchers also found that citrus juice boosted catechin levels by more than five times. The most potent juice was lemon, causing 80 percent of the tea's catechins to remain, followed by orange, lime, and grapefruit.
So don't let the healthy benefits of green tea go down the drain. Give it a squeeze of zesty lemon, sweet orange, fresh lime, or tangy grapefruit. You'll deliver pleasure to your senses and pack more potency into your cup.
[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet (www.healinggourmet.com), and is editor-in-chief of the Healing Gourmet book series.”
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Some added comments.
Grapefruit juice may not be safe for people who are taking any kind of drug as it tends to increase the effective dose. Lemon juice is OK from what I've read.
Also, it my be safest to drink tea with lemon in a tea or coffee cup made of glass as many ceramic ones will leach lead if you put something in them as acidic as lemon juice.
And, taking in added lead which harms your health when you are trying to improve it sounds like a very bad idea to me.
Why guess when decent glass cups are available? If the stores you go to don’t have them, try bar supplies or an upscale store as I’ve found glass cups in both kinds of stores. (I think that bars use them for Irish coffees.)
Some of green tea’s health benefits may stay the same. But this clearly will add some vitamin C & multiply some of the health benefits.
So, if you like lemon, by all means give it a try.
Today's post: Monday, 2-11-2008
In our last post, we put information that drinking tea helps to physically improve & speed up your body’s recovery from stress & added some related info about drinking tea for health.
And, in an earlier post, we suggested that people who find green tea too bland or aren’t fond of the taste of black tea might like it fine by adding some lemon juice. (It tastes more like tart lemonade if you do that.)
Earlier today I saw the article I’m posting below that says that adding lemon may give you as much as FIVE times as much of some of green tea’s health benefits.
This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, the Internet’s most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.
“Boost the Power of Your Tea With a Squeeze
By Kelley Herring
If you frequently enjoy a splash of citrus in your green tea, you're doing your body a favor.
New research from Purdue University, published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, shows that catechins - the primary antioxidants in green tea - are destroyed by digestion. In fact, less than 20 percent of these free-radical fighters remain by the time they've traversed your tract.
But the researchers also found that citrus juice boosted catechin levels by more than five times. The most potent juice was lemon, causing 80 percent of the tea's catechins to remain, followed by orange, lime, and grapefruit.
So don't let the healthy benefits of green tea go down the drain. Give it a squeeze of zesty lemon, sweet orange, fresh lime, or tangy grapefruit. You'll deliver pleasure to your senses and pack more potency into your cup.
[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet (www.healinggourmet.com), and is editor-in-chief of the Healing Gourmet book series.”
X * X* X* X
Some added comments.
Grapefruit juice may not be safe for people who are taking any kind of drug as it tends to increase the effective dose. Lemon juice is OK from what I've read.
Also, it my be safest to drink tea with lemon in a tea or coffee cup made of glass as many ceramic ones will leach lead if you put something in them as acidic as lemon juice.
And, taking in added lead which harms your health when you are trying to improve it sounds like a very bad idea to me.
Why guess when decent glass cups are available? If the stores you go to don’t have them, try bar supplies or an upscale store as I’ve found glass cups in both kinds of stores. (I think that bars use them for Irish coffees.)
Some of green tea’s health benefits may stay the same. But this clearly will add some vitamin C & multiply some of the health benefits.
So, if you like lemon, by all means give it a try.
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