Now that the health benefits of drinking tea (three to six
cups of tea a day is associated with a 45 percent reduced risk of
death from heart disease) have been demonstrated, curious readers may ask which tea they should be drinking. The answer, recent research suggests, is the kind you brew, and not the kind you buy in a bottle. Scientists speaking at this week's National Meeting
of the American Chemical Society report that many of the increasingly
popular bottled teas contain far fewer
polyphenols than a single cup of home-brewed green or black tea. An ACS news release tells us that researchers measured the level of polyphenols  natural antioxidants
linked to anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and anti-diabetic properties â€â€
of six brands of tea purchased from supermarkets. Half of them
contained virtually no antioxidants, and the rest
had so few polyphenols that they would carry
little health benefit, especially when combined with the high sugar intake
from tea beverages. Want numbers? The six commercial bottled teas analyzed contained 81, 43, 40, 13, 4, and 3 milligrams
(mg) of polyphenols per 16-ounce bottle. One average cup of home-brewed
green or black tea, which costs only a few cents, contains 50-150 mg of
polyphenols.
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Thank you for this good information, as I have beenexperiment with different teas, and have been a botteled green tea drinker for quite sometime. However, I do think that the bottled tea did keep my weight down.
thank you for the information. My bottle green tea has no sugar or fat in it.
Can Home made Sun tea have the same results as the home brewed?
Bill drinks green tea and white tea.Whit tea is better than green or black tea.I also drink a lot of cocoa,it is a good source of antioxidants and polyphenols which are anticancer compounds.Just thought I would pass this along to you. Heer is to your health!! AND if you belive? Psalms 41:3 Says-The Lord will sustain you on your sickbed and restore you from your bed of illness!! Have a Blessed Day!! Bill C. southeast cornor of Texas!!!
I was a health nut back in the 70s and still am.
I save the glass bottle the tea comes in and brew my own triple tea bag cup and squeeze every last drop of it into the bottle with some Emergen C or fruit juice.
Its super duper.