Gain Maximum Tea Benefits By Adding Lemon

Written By Unknown on lundi 24 septembre 2012 | 05:18

By Justin Castle


Green tea extract benefits may be significantly greater when mixed with lemon. In order to fully understand this concept, we must first examine the importance of food combination.

A number of nutrition experts will agree that blending food can damage or benefit a person's physical health. Most people experiencing heartburn after a buffet may blame the large amount of food, however in many instances bad food combination is the contributing factor. For example, combining melon with any other food is not a smart combination.

In general fruits are easily digested within the stomach. Melons are over 90 percent water which means they break down even faster. If the digestive function is delayed because of blending with other food, fermentation takes place in the stomach potentially resulting in upset stomach, indigestion, excessive gas and acid reflux. On the flip side, some food mixtures enhance the health benefits by helping the absorption.

One example of a great food combination is tomatoes and olives. In the realm of nutrition, tomatoes are recognized as a great source of Lycopene. Lycopene provides health improvements like fight against cancer and heart diseases. When tomatoes are ingested simultaneously with olives the positive effects are increased. Olives enhance the absorption of Lycopene. So what about lemon and green tea?

Healthy heart, digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss and cancer prevention are the various green tea benefits. These health rewards are possible because of green tea's antioxidant, catechins. Despite the positive effects of catechins, studies show that these antioxidants are degraded easily in the human intestines after digestion only around 20 percent of them will be remaining for absorption.

Lemon also has antioxidant that is vitamin C. It allows for some of lemon's benefits like digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. More to the point vitamin C creates more suitable environment for catechins to survive when mixed together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine turns into an acidic environment for catechins. This process makes catechins to be more available for absorption. In fact it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus fruit juice such as lime, grapefruit or orange will enhance the absorption function. However lemon are the most effective of all suggesting that other elements of lemon juice are also helping the stabilizing effect.

Mixing tea and lemon juice can even be tastier considering tea's natural taste is bitter. For people looking for an alternative to tea, there are many green tea pills with vitamin C.




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