The The Eternal Teacup – A Cup Full of Health Benefits or adverse effects?

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The eternal Teacup – A cup full of health? Ways of enjoying tea – a cultural thing!
How do you like your tea? With milk, with milk and sugar or simply black!

Researchers at Tea Research Association in Assam, India, found that the effect of antioxidants, theaflavins and thearubigins which help to cut cholesterol and reduce the amount of fat absorbed by the gut get neutralised if milk, especially cow milk is added to the tea.

Dr. Devajit Borthakur, a scientist at the Tea Research Association in Assam says that “When tea is taken with milk, theaflavins and thearubigins form complexes with the milk protein, which causes them to precipitate. Therefore, we neither get the health benefits from these compounds nor from milk. Therefore, it is always advised to take tea without milk.”

According to the results of a study published in the Nutrition Research, addition of milk reduces the antioxidant potential of tea by 7 to 25%. Skimmed milk decreased the antioxidant capacity much more than semi skimmed or whole milk.

When milk is added to tea, casein from milk binds to ECGC. However plant based milks like soy milk does not contain casein and do not exhibit this phenomenon.

“Although the addition of milk may not inhibit the catechin or quercetin concentrations, it may affect other antioxidant components such as the theaflavins and thearubigins that will affect the total antioxidant capacity of black tea,” wrote Lisa Ryan and Sébastien Petit from the Functional Food Centre at Oxford Brookes University.

In many regions of the world, like India and Britain, a majority of the population consumes tea with milk.

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29 November, 2011 | Shipra | Reply

For maximum health benefits From tea ....it should be freshly brewed,not boiled and with no milk added. One should not take more than 4 cups but spread out the whole day.

Many people like to swallow or down their medicine with tea as they form various tannin compounds and medicines do not work effectively. That’s why the Chinese say that tea destroys medicines.

09 November, 2011 | Kajol | Reply

In a study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research in June 2009, researchers reported that green tea polyphenols, primarily EGCG, significantly reduced the levels of PSA. The study included 26 men who had prostate cancer and who were scheduled for radical prostatectomy. (McLarty 2009).

07 November, 2011 | Lymphoma treatment India | Reply

Lymphoma treatment India This article gives the light in which we can observe the reality. this is very nice one and gives indepth information. thanks for this nice article.

30 September, 2011 | Vijayalakshmi Iyengar | Reply

Till recently everybody thought that green tea was the healthiest tea of all due to a powerful anti-oxidant in it -epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg). Since black tea was the result of fermentation wherein it EGCg was converted into other compounds, it was considered not as healthy. However, recent studies indicate the compounds contained in black tea - theaflavins and thearubigens - do more than contribute to its dark color and distinctive flavor. They also provide health benefits originally attributed solely to green tea.

30 September, 2011 | Tiwari | Reply

Catechins that give cocoa & dark chocolate that exalted status of being heart friendly is also found in tea .It has the same benefit against stroke & diabetes. Santosh Katiyar, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham found that the antioxidant also known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate can protect the skin from harmful UV rays.

29 September, 2011 | Prasad | Reply

Hello Ms Poonam, this is a really interesting article. Can you please tell me how to Brew the Perfect Cup of Tea?

29 September, 2011 | Poonam | Reply

Thank you Mr Prasad.
Heres a simple guide to brew the perfect cup of tea:
The best temperature and brewing time depends on the type of tea.
•Green and White tea -65-85 deg C, steep time of 1- 2 minutes
•Oolong tea- 80-85 deg C, steep time of 2- 3 minutes
•Black tea – 99 deg C, steep time of 2- 3 minutes
•Herbal tea- 99 deg C, steep time of 3-6 minutes

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