Do not Drink Tea Packaging, why?

If you want to get the maximum benefits of tea, choose a tea brewed with warm water instead of bottled ready to drink tea. According to research presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, instant tea contains antioxidants and polyphenols levels are very low.

"Consumers actually understand the concept of the benefits of drinking tea and eating other tea products. But here was the perception that large distances between healthy eating tea with the exact amount of nutrients in the tea ready to drink," said one researcher, Shiming Li, PhD, as quoted from NY Daily News.

Actually, lack of ready to drink tea not only because of very low nutrient levels, but also a very high sugar content. The team of researchers find out by measuring the levels of tea polyphenols on the six brands in the market.

Half of the brands are known to virtually no antioxidant and polyphenol content is very small. Tea is packed in bags usually contain 175 milligrams of polyphenols, two times greater than the tea ready to drink.

The reason why the nutritional content of tea ready to drink very little was quite a dilemma. According to Li, the company deliberately reduce levels of polyphenols in tea packaging in order to win the market. Therefore, the main nutrients in tea that gives the effect of the bitter taste that is not preferred by consumers.

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