How To Enhance The Benefits Of Green Tea?

By John Clifford


Green tea extract benefits can be significantly increased if lemon juice is added. In order to understand this principle, one must first explore the importance of food combination.

Most nutrition experts will agree that food combination can positively or negatively impact a person's physical health. People having difficulties with acid reflux following a buffet like meal may blame the amount of food, but in many cases poor food combination is the contributing problem. As an example, combining melon with any other food is not a smart combination.

Many fruits in general are very easily digested in the stomach. Melons are about 90 percent water meaning they digest even faster. If the digestive function is delayed resulting from mixing with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach possibly causing excessive gas, acid reflux, upset stomach and indigestion. On the other hand, certain food combinations improve the health benefits by supporting the absorption function.

An example of a perfect combination is olives and tomatoes. Tomatoes are reported to be a good provider of Lycopene in the world of diet. Fight against cancer and heart diseases is a few of the common health rewards of Lycopene. Health advantages are upgraded when tomatoes are ingested at the same time with olives. Absorption process of Lycopene is accelerated by olives. How about tea and lemon?

Examples of the well recognized green tea benefits are weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart, digestive aid and diabetes prevention. Due to tea's antioxidant called catechins the benefits are achievable. Despite the positive effects of catechins, researches indicate that these antioxidants are unstable within the human intestines following digestion allowing no more than 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon also has antioxidant that is vitamin C. It plays a part in some of lemon's positive aspects such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Even more importantly vitamin C allows right environment for catechins to be available longer when combined together.

By the addition of Vitamin C, human intestine becomes an acidic environment for catechins. Doing so makes catechins to be more available for absorption. After all it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus juice like orange, lime or grapefruit will boost the absorption process. Yet lemon is the most effective of all suggesting that some other components of lemon juice are possibly adding to the stabilizing effect.

Because the natural flavor of tea is bitter, adding lemon juice to tea can be tastier. For those trying to find an alternative option to tea, there are many green tea pills with vitamin C.




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