Interesting and useful about our favorite tea
Tea and health
Tea with milk in some countries is more popular even & laquo; pure & raquo; drink, no additives. For example, masala tea is brewed in India: water, milk, black tea and spices. In England, almost everyone drinks black tea with milk. But is it possible to drink green tea with milk?
Expectant new moms, upon learning of their delicate situation, often wonder & ndash; and whether it is possible to drink green tea during pregnancy. It is known that green tea contains a lot of caffeine that stimulates the nervous system, which raises this question. The myth that green tea is contraindicated in pregnant women & ndash; it is only a myth. You can and should drink it. But, of course, in limited quantities.
Green tea is the most popular hot drink. After a cup of tea in the morning, the body cheers up, resets sleepy relaxation and prepares for an active pace of life. And all thanks to caffeine, vitamins and amino acids contained in large quantities. Green tea invigorates and tones, but this applies only to green - unfermented tea, black - fermented tea, has such qualities to a much lesser extent.
The use of green tea is so overgrown with myths, assumptions and guesses that it is difficult to determine where the lie is and where the truth is. One of the frequently asked questions & ndash; whether children can drink green tea remains open. Scientists still continue to study the biochemical reactions arising in the tea leaf before, during and after fermentation, but today there is a more or less formed position on green tea.
Initially, there was no such drink as & laquo; tea & raquo;. There was a medicine & laquo; tea & raquo;, which helps against many diseases, strengthens immunity and prolongs youth. And only from about the 5th century A.D. the Chinese began to use tea as a tonic drink.
With prostatitis, treatment with herbal teas helps effectively. This is a method known to folk medicine, consisting of a long course of daily use of herbal infusions and decoctions. If we talk about Chinese tea, then it is valuable in itself, thanks to the large number of useful trace elements, minerals and biological compounds. And it is also included in the daily diet in order to prevent various diseases, incl. prostatitis.
160-180 thousand tons of tea leaves are exported to Russia annually, of which black tea varieties consistently occupy 85-90% of the total consumption, leaving green only 9-12%. And, nevertheless, green tea drinks an impressive number of people, enjoying a variety of tastes.
In China, tea culture has more than 4000 years, and in Russia & ndash; is just emerging. Most do not even imagine what a positive effect on the body has a regular consumption of unfermented natural tea. And if they knew, they would drink it much more often.
Green tea has such a rich history that information about it has been overgrown with numerous rumors and myths.
The presence of a large number of useful biologically active substances in the tea leaf has led some to use green tea for weight loss, including it in the diet of their diets. But does tea contribute to weight loss?