Ten Benefits of Drinking Green Tea

Green tea is a kind of unfermented tea. Varieties famous green tea include West Lake Longjing, Dongting, Biluochun, Huangshan,  Maofeng, Anhuasong needle tea, etc. It is a kind of art and enjoyment to drink top-grade green tea.

Because green tea has not been fermented, it retains the most primitive substances in the fresh leaves of tea tree to the greatest extent. Among them, tea polyphenols, amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients have been largely retained, which provides the basis for green tea health care.

What’ the good of drinking green tea? First of all, to understand the composition of green tea, confirmed by modern scientific research, green tea contains more than 450 kinds of organic compounds, more than 15 kinds of inorganic minerals, most of these ingredients have health care, disease prevention effect. So I’d like to list ten benefits of drinking green tea.

1. Reduce fat and lose weight

Modern medical research shows that green tea contains amino acids, phenolic derivatives, aromatic substances, vitamins, etc. The comprehensive effect of these substances, especially the comprehensive effect of tea polyphenols, catechins and vitamin C, can promote fat combustion, reduce blood lipids and cholesterol. Thus, for female friends, regular drinking of green tea can help digestion, reduce fat and lose weight.      

Tea polyphenols play an important role in human fat metabolism. In particular, catechin ECG, EGC and theaflavin, the oxidation products of tea polyphenols, are helpful to reduce fibrinogen, clear coagulation and inhibit atherosclerosis. In addition, green tea contains theophylline and caffeine, which can activate protein kinase and triglyceride lipase through many functions, reduce the accumulation of fat cells, so as to achieve weight loss effect.