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 in general are very easily digested in the stomach. Melons are about 90 percent water meaning they digest even faster. If the digestive function is delayed resulting from mixing with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach possibly causing excessive gas, acid reflux, upset stomach and indigestion. On the other hand, certain food combinations improve the health benefits by supporting the absorption function.

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?

A few of the well recognized tea benefits are digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss, cancer prevention and healthy heart. Because of tea's antioxidant known as catechins the health benefits are achievable. Despite the positive aspects of catechins, researches indicate these antioxidants are degraded easily inside the human intestines following digestion leaving no more than 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon also has antioxidant that is vitamin C. It plays a part in some of lemon's positive aspects such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Even more importantly vitamin C allows right environment for catechins to be available longer 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.

Because the natural taste of tea is bitter, mixing lemon juice and tea can be tastier. For folks trying to find an alternative option to green tea, there are also a lot of green tea pills with vitamin C.




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