Green tea is a natural source of caffeine which makes a great way to perking yourself up when you are feeling tired.
The good news is that green tea contains less caffeine than coffee meaning that one can sip this beverage through out the afternoon without significantly disturbing one’s sleep or suffering through the jitter side effects of a caffeine overdose.
Green tea consumers have risen to popularity and second to coffee or tea. Just like both beverages, green tea is consumed either hot or cold.
People consume green tea for its rich polyphenol and antioxidants content. They know that the optimum brewing or drinking temperature is essential to reap it maximum benefits.
Traditionally, green tea is brewed using hot (hot boiling water) but recent evidence revealed that brewing and consuming green tea in a cooler temperature is better.
Benefits of Green Tea
- 1. Green tea is very effective at reducing lower heart disease risk: It is automatically good for your heart. In research study, 40,530 individuals followed over seven years of drinking three to four cups of green tea per day have reduced to 30 to 31 percent the risk of drying of cardiovascular diseases in Asia.
- Green tea protects your brain against brain diseases like Alzheimer’s disease: The Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by profound changes in memory and thinking abilities. This neurodegenerative disease currently has no cure per say. However, the antioxidants in green tea appear to reduce the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s diseases.
- 3. Drinking green tea helps stabilize blood sugar levels: the flavonoids in green tea including epigallocatechin gallate have been shown to decrease the liver’s glucose production. This means that your body regulates blood sugar more effectively keeping your glucose levels with a healthy range.
- 4. Green tea reduces blood pressure: the green tea may protect the heart health by lowering blood pressure. Studies have found that drinking green tea reduces blood pressure significantly, particularly in people with high risk of heart disease. High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of heart diseases and stroke because it damages the lining of arteries which increases the risk of plaque buildup. As a result, the arteries narrow and restrict blood-flow to the heart and brain. Moreover, research has proven that green tea may lower blood pressure due to its high antioxidants content. Those antioxidants help decrease inflammation and dilate your blood vessels which support healthy blood flow.
- Green tea might lower stroke risk: stroke is one of leading causes of death among adults these days. Studies have equally found that stroke as we know is one of the leading causes of disability and death among adults in most countries. Research has proven that drinking green tea may be one way to helping in preventing the risk of stroke diseases among people.
Benefits of Cold Green Tea.
Research has found that using water lower than 90-degree Celsius is more effective in extracting the polyphenol from green tea. In fact, the lower the temperature the better. Colder temperature is also effective in removing the bitterness that is sometimes present in green tea.
tea brewed and drunk in cold temperatures has a higher bioactive concentration, especially of gallic acid and epigallocatechin. The benefits of drinking green tea with high amount of these bioactive amount include, reduction in inflammation, improvement in bone strength by preventing the reabsorption of bone cells and limiting the growth of bacteria in the mouth. In addition, drinking cold green tea is beneficial for reducing the risk of oesophageal cancer as studies have found drinking green tea at temperature higher than 60-degree celsius increases ESOP cancer risk by 90 percent.
How to Brew the Best Cold Green Tea
To effectively brew a cup of cold green tea, take a cup of warm water or room temperature water, then add a bag of green tea or a table spoon of powder green tea leaves.
Allow it to steep for 30 minutes or an hour, remove the leaves’ bag and let it drip. Please do not squeeze it. Then add honey if desired and consume your drink.
Happy drinking.
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