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Maximize Green Tea Benefits By Adding Lemon Juice

By Max Waters


Green tea health benefits will be significantly enhanced when blended with lemon juice. In order to comprehend this theory, let's first analyze the importance of food combination.

Most health experts will agree that combining food can harm or aid a person's physical health. Someone who is suffering indigestion after a buffet may blame the amount of food, yet in many cases bad food combination is the contributing cause. For example, combining melon with any other food is a bad combination.

Fruit in most cases are broken down inside the stomach without having issues. Melons are above 90 percent water which means they break down even faster. If the digestive process is delayed as a result of blending with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach possibly causing excessive gas, acid reflux, upset stomach and indigestion. On the flip side, certain food mixtures improve the health rewards by assisting the absorption.

One example of a very good combination is olives and tomatoes. In the world of diet, tomatoes are reported to be a very good supply of Lycopene. Lycopene offers health advantages such as protection from cancer and fight against heart diseases. When tomatoes are consumed at the same time with olives the health rewards are boosted. Olives improve the absorption of Lycopene. Now what about lemon and tea?

Some well-known green tea benefits are healthy heart, digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss and cancer prevention. Due to green tea's antioxidant called catechins the health rewards are possible. Despite the many benefits of catechins, studies have shown that these antioxidants are easily degraded inside the human intestines after digestion allowing only about 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon also has antioxidant that is vitamin C. It contributes to some of lemon's positive aspects which include digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Importantly vitamin C provides suitable environment for catechins to be available longer when mixed together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine becomes an acidic environment for catechins. This process makes 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 enhance the absorption function. Even so lemon juice seems to be the most effective of all implying that some other elements of lemon juice are potentially adding to the absorption availability.

Because the natural taste of tea is bitter, mixing tea and lemon juice can be more delicious. For people interested in an option to green tea, one can find many selections of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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