lundi 17 septembre 2012

Does Lemon Juice Enhance Green Tea Benefits?

By Roger Flynn


The benefits of green tea can be drastically increased if lemon is added. To be able to understand this principle, one must first look into the importance of combining food.

A lot of nutrition experts will agree that blending food can negatively or positively affect a person's health condition. People in discomfort with acid reflux from a buffet may blame the "All You Can Eat" policy, but in most occasions poor food mixing is the contributing issue. For example, mixing melon with another food is a poor idea.

In general fruits are digested within the stomach without any difficulty. Melons digest in fact faster than other fruit, since they are about 90 percent water. If the digestive process is delayed as a result of blending with other food, fermentation takes place in the stomach possibly resulting in excessive gas, acid reflux, upset stomach and indigestion. However, certain food mixtures increase the health rewards by supporting the absorption function.

An example of an excellent combination is tomatoes and olives. Tomatoes are known to be a fantastic provider of Lycopene in the dietary world. Cancer and heart diseases prevention are some of the well-known health benefits of Lycopene. Health benefits are improved when tomatoes are consumed together with olives. Absorption process of Lycopene is improved by olives. Now what about green tea with lemon?

Some of the well-known tea benefits are weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart, digestive aid and diabetes prevention. Thanks to green tea's antioxidant known as catechins the benefits are achievable. Although the positive aspects of catechins are great, studies have shown these antioxidants are easily degraded inside the human intestines after digestion only about 20 percent of them is available for absorption.

Lemon also offers antioxidant which is vitamin C. It plays a part in some of lemon's positive aspects for example digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Even more importantly vitamin C offers ideal environment for catechins to be available longer when mixed together.

Vitamin C provides an acidic condition for catechins inside the human intestines. This process allows catechins to be more available for absorption. In fact it does not have to be lemon. Any citrus juice like orange, lime or grapefruit will boost the absorption process. Yet lemon juice seems to be the most effective of all suggesting that some other elements of lemon are potentially adding to the stabilizing effect.

Since the natural taste of tea is bitter, combining tea and lemon juice can be tastier. For those trying to find an option to green tea, there are many selections of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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