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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Mix Tea With Lemon Juice And Increase Health Benefits

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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.

A lot of diet experts will certainly agree that combining food can negatively or positively impact a person's physical condition. Someone who is in discomfort with heartburn following a buffet may blame the unlimited food, however in some cases poor food mixing is the contributing reason. For example, combining melon with any other food is a bad 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?

Some well-known green tea benefits are weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart, digestive aid and diabetes prevention. Due to green tea's antioxidant called catechins the benefits are achievable. Despite the many benefits of catechins, studies have shown that these antioxidants are unstable inside the human intestines following digestion allowing only about 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.

Vitamin C creates an acidic condition for catechins inside the human intestines. This process allows catechins to be more available for absorption. Actually it does not have to be lemon. Any citrus juice like grapefruit, orange or lime will upgrade the absorption function. Even so lemon juice seems to be the most effective of all suggesting that additional components of lemon are possibly helping to the absorption availability.

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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