Mixing Green Tea And Lemon Can Improve The Benefits

Written By Unknown on mercredi 5 septembre 2012 | 04:47

By Daniel Lance


The positive effects of green tea can be drastically boosted if blended with lemon. To be able to understand this principle, let's first analyze the importance of food combination.

A lot of nutritionists will likely agree that food combination can negatively or positively affect a person's health condition. An individual in discomfort with indigestion after a buffet may blame the unlimited food, but in most occasions poor food combination is the contributing cause. As an example, combining melon with any other food is not the best idea.

Generally fruits are digested inside the stomach without having issues. Melons are over 90 percent water that means they digest even faster. If the digestive process is delayed because of blending with other food, fermentation takes place in the stomach likely resulting in acid reflux, upset stomach, indigestion and excessive gas. In contrast, some food combinations boost the health benefits by helping the absorption.

Tomatoes and olives are a good food combination. In the dietary world, tomatoes are known to be a fantastic source of Lycopene. Lycopene possesses health benefits such as fight against heart diseases and cancer. When tomatoes are eaten together with olives the health advantages are increased. Olives boost the absorption process of Lycopene. How about green tea with lemon?

Diabetes prevention, weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart and digestive aid are some of the tea benefits. These benefits are all achievable thanks to green tea's antioxidant, catechins. Although the benefits of catechins are amazing, studies have shown that these antioxidants are degraded easily in the human intestines after digestion leaving only about 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon also offers antioxidant that is vitamin C. It plays a part in some of lemon's health improvement abilites such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Importantly vitamin C allows more suitable environment for catechins to be available longer when blended together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine becomes an acidic environment for catechins. This process makes catechins to be more available for absorption. Actually it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus juice like orange, lime or grapefruit will improve the absorption function. However lemon juice seems to be the most effective of all indicating that other components of lemon are possibly contributing to the absorption availability.

Since the natural taste of tea is bitter, drinking tea with lemon juice can be more delicious. For individuals interested in an alternative option to green tea, you will find many green tea capsules with vitamin C.




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