Friday, October 12, 2012

Blending Green Tea And Lemon Juice Improves Health Benefits

By John Clifford


Green tea extract benefits can be significantly increased if lemon juice is added. In order to understand this principle, one must first explore the importance of food combination.

Most nutrition experts will agree that food combination can positively or negatively impact a person's physical health. People having difficulties with acid reflux following a buffet like meal may blame the amount of food, but in many cases poor food combination is the contributing problem. As an example, combining melon with any other food is not a smart combination.

Many fruits normally are quickly broken down in the stomach. Melons are around 90 percent water that means they digest even faster. If the digestion is delayed as a result of blending with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach potentially causing acid reflux, upset stomach, indigestion and excessive gas. However, some food blends increase the health benefits by helping the food absorption.

One example of a good food combination is tomatoes and olives. Tomatoes are recognized as a great source of Lycopene in the dietary world. Fight against heart diseases and protection from cancer are some of the well-known health benefits of Lycopene. Positive effects are enhanced when tomatoes are eaten together with olives. Absorption of Lycopene are increased by olives. So what about green tea with lemon?

Examples of the well recognized green tea benefits are weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart, digestive aid and diabetes prevention. Due to tea's antioxidant called catechins the benefits are achievable. Despite the positive effects of catechins, researches indicate that these antioxidants are unstable within the human intestines following digestion allowing no more than 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon is also recognized for antioxidant that is vitamin C. It allows for some of lemon's positive factors for example digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Even more importantly vitamin C creates ideal environment for catechins to survive when combined together.

By the addition of Vitamin C, human intestine becomes an acidic environment for catechins. Doing so makes catechins to be more available for absorption. After all it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus juice like orange, lime or grapefruit will boost the absorption process. Yet lemon is the most effective of all suggesting that some other components of lemon juice are possibly adding to the stabilizing effect.

Since the natural taste of tea is bitter, blending tea and lemon juice can be more delicious. For those trying to find an alternative option to tea, there are also a lot of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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