Facts About Chinese Green Tea

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Facts About Green Tea

According to history, green tea may have originated from the Southwest area of China. This type of tea is derived from steamed and dried leaves of the Camellia sinesis plant, which is also known as tea plant, tea tree, and tea shrub. Its leaves and buds are mainly utilized to produce numerous types of green tea.
Although there are various kinds of green tea. Generally, the taste will depend upon the place they were grown, how they were processed, and when they were harvested. Specifically, good green teas can have a range of tastes depending on its quality. The flavor can be described as fresh, sweet, bittersweet, grassy, nutty, vegetal, buttery, floral, light, swampy, green, fruity and oceanic.
The processing, growing conditions, and harvests time mainly influences the difference between many varieties of green tea. Each type is processed differently to attain different levels of oxidation. The level of oxidation is vital in the processing of green tea, this type of tea has to undergo minimal oxidation, a shorter process in order to give green tea a lighter flavor and help preserve all the beneficial chemicals intact.

Benefits of Drinking Green Tea

  1. Green tea offers a tremendous concentration of antioxidants called polyphenols. It is important to note that polyphenols present an important role in preventing and in lessening the progression of conditions like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
  1. Drinking green tea is also important for disease prevention such as heart disease and diabetes which are correlated with obesity. This is because of the presence of polyphenols, which plays an important role as a beneficial microorganism. It increases the ratio of good bacteria that is already present in the large intestine, which is important for health and weight management.
Furthermore, green tea offers properties that increase fat burning and also boosts our body's metabolic rate.
  1. According to studies the combination of caffeine and L-theanine is especially potent at improving brain function.
In addition, these active ingredients of green tea, caffeine is a type of stimulant that keeps us awake and the amino acid L-theanine offers anti-anxiety effects.
  1. Studies show that green tea is very effective in slowing or completely preventing cancer development in stomach, colon, liver, pancreas, breast and prostate cells. This is due to the presence of catechins in green teawhich gives three times the quantity found in black tea.

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November ,8th

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