Don’t Digest That Tea?
Heres an article that urges us to do the unusual - to stop digesting our green tea in the name of preserving half of its antioxidant quality. I’d rather just drink twice as much.
“The anti-cancer effects of green tea was cut by 50 per cent when the extracts were digested. But the tumour-fighting abilities of catechins in black tea were unaffected by digestion.”
Interesting to note the study found that black tea’s healthful compounds jive well with the digestive process. The complementary nature of darker teas (ie more oxidized) to the digestive organs is one of the fundamentals of traditional Chinese medicine’s understanding of tea and health.
Andrew
Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Tea News.
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