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A few cups of flavored tea a day is a good habit of many. This divine drink not only perfectly quenches thirst, but is an integral part of heart-to-heart conversation. Moreover, tea still has many health benefits. There are a great many kinds of tea, let's dwell in more detail on the most popular and beneficial to health.
Green tea - rejuvenates and cleans
Green tea is made from unfermented leaves - the drying process is carried out immediately after the break. Because of this, it retains the more valuable ingredients of black tea, characteristic of fresh leaves. Its health properties are used by thousands of thousands of people in Chinese medicine. Modern research shows that in green tea you can find a number of antioxidants, primarily a group of polyphenolic compounds called catechins. They are strong antioxidants involved in the elimination of free radicals that damage cells and lead to tumors, aging and keratosis.
The most useful teas.
Black tea.
The leader of sales and, as a result, the most popular is black tea. It tones well, raises blood pressure, contains a lot of caffeine. Therefore, hypertensive patients and people with cardiovascular diseases are better to quench their thirst with water or compotes. And drink tea in moderation.
Studies have shown that it is at least a hundred times more effective than vitamin C, and at least twenty-five times more effective than vitamin E in protecting our cells. Currently, research is being conducted on the health of green tea. From those that have been fulfilled so far, you can conclude without convincing evidence that they can have the following properties.
Green tea contains caffeine, as well as other compounds with a lower concentration of caffeine, xanthine derivatives, among others theobromine, theanine and theophil. As for the same volume of the finished drink, it is believed that typically brewed green tea contains two or three times less caffeine than the average coffee.
Kafa tea.
Many fans also have tea blends, which are especially common in Southeast Asia, and have recently become popular in our latitudes. Kafa tea is very useful, which consists of dried cinnamon, cardamom, pepper, ginger. Kafa tea is better known as yogi tea.
Its advantage is that it contains almost no caffeine, and spicy herbs and roots the best way to influence the health of the whole organism. Kafa tea is especially good with honey and milk, and it is also drunk with fruit juice. He invigorates and uplifting.
Black tea - stimulates and protects against caries
The most popular type of green tea is gunpowder, long, sencha. Black tea is the result of four processes — steaming, twisting, fermenting, and drying. While green tea contains more catechins, black teems with more complex flavonoids, which also have antioxidant activity.
It reduces blood pressure, improves blood circulation and reduces the risk of heart disease. The advantage of black tea is its stimulating activity - it contains a lot, more green. It inhibits the growth of bacteria and stimulates the secretion of digestive juices, which is used in food poisoning. Due to its high fluoride content, it protects teeth from caries.
Rooibos Tea
Rooibos tea (from the Dutch Rooibos) or “Nectar from South Africa” is also a very useful drink. It is made from the leaves of a special type of South African shrub. Rooibos is very pleasant to the taste, perfectly invigorates and nourishes the body with vitamin C. Therefore, this type of tea is considered one of the most effective natural immunostimulants.
Red tea - helps fight excess weight
However, it has a disadvantage - it contains compounds, tannins, which inhibit the absorption of iron, so you should not drink something like food. Pour it with boiling water and a shower for 3-4 minutes. Red tea is semi-fermented tea. Her work in the field of health is all the more effective, the longer it allows her to mature in the right conditions. It contains a very small amount of caffeine and tannins, so that it does not interfere with the absorption of iron and is a good solution for people sensitive to caffeine.
It also does not contain caffeine and is equally good both hot and cold. And he has no restrictions on the number of cups drunk per day. A great option for the summer heat, because this traditional oriental drink well saves from thirst. By the way, based on it they also prepare alcoholic cocktails with champagne, wine or rum. 
The flavonoids present in red tea are responsible for its characteristic taste and aroma and possess antioxidant properties. He was not subjected to such tests as green and black, but it is suspected that he reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood, supports the function of the liver, the body and contributes to the fight against overweight.
White tea - stimulates and refreshes
White tea occurs in young donors who have not yet developed. Collection of such buds is possible only once a year, in spring. Young leaves contain three times more health polyphenols than older ones. The bushes from which white tea is made are sometimes additionally protected from the sun - this prevents the formation of chlorophyll.
Green tea.
Green tea came to us from the East; in Japan and China, the tea ceremony has been a part of culture for many centuries. Green tea has been known to mankind for more than four thousand years, it invigorates and tones even better than coffee. Some scientists believe that this type of tea has anti-cancer effects.
It can be brewed several times, while the taste of the drink is still great. Naturally, we are talking only about high-quality varieties of green tea and we wrote about it in the article:
Oolong tea
Tea with the exotic name oolong is better known in our latitudes as red, it contains much less caffeine than black tea. Therefore, it is quite possible to drink at night. This type of tea is especially appreciated among connoisseurs for its unique aroma and unique taste. He also like green teas, has a whole list of useful properties and brewed up to 4 times in a row. Oolong tea is obtained by not completely fermenting tea leaves, and it takes, as it were, an intermediate place between black and green. If you stop fermentation even earlier, you get yellow tea.
Karkade.
It is also often called red tea, but it is only made from the petals of a Sudanese rose (hibiscus). It is very popular in Egypt, Sudan and other countries of the South-West. Its peculiarity is that when hot, carcade boosts pressure, and in cold it lowers. That is why the Arabs prefer to treat guests to cold carcade in the summer heat. Moreover, this type of tea contains a huge amount of vitamin C and rutin, has a urinary and choleretic effect. There is evidence that carcade is also an anti-cancer agent.
Herbal tea.
There are a lot of herbal preparations, and they all have a very specific spectrum of action on the human body. Herbal teas occupy one of the leading positions in positive effects on health, as well as in taste. More details about these teas can be found in our article:. Immediately, we note that herbs should be used very carefully.
- Lime tea well boosts immunity, has expectorant action.
- Raspberry tea reduces body temperature with a cold, but has a very pronounced diaphoretic effect. Therefore, if you are sick, drink a glass of warm water before tea drinking, and only after that start drinking tea with raspberries.
- Tea with fennel and mint calms the nervous system, normalizes the gastrointestinal tract. He is advised to take for the treatment of gastritis at home, as described in detail in the blog of Lyudmila Moroshkina.
- Tea from birch and nettle leaves perfectly cleanses the body.
It is best to drink herbal tea courses for two weeks. And then replace with another type of tea. wishes you a pleasant tea and reminds you that it is good that in moderation.
doctor, specialist in health programs and healthy nutrition, graduated titesterAll types of tea are made from tea bushes (in China) or tea tree (India, Ceylon), although they are also produced in other countries - Kenya, Japan, Vietnam, Nepal.
Each type of tea has its own specific effects on the body. The beneficial properties of tea depend on the growing conditions of the tea plant and the method of processing the tea leaves. It is known that tea leaf contains thein, or tea caffeine. It has a tonic effect on the body, increases pressure, but more gently than caffeine in coffee. This is explained by the fact that theine is in a drink in a bound form, unlike coffee caffeine. Therefore, tea acts softer and longer compared to coffee.
What determines the concentration of tea caffeine in tea? The smaller and “younger” leaf, the more caffeine in it. This means that tea with tips — tea buds — is richest in caffeine, as is high-mountain tea (temperature changes affect the caffeine content in tea leaves, and this leaf grows more slowly in the mountains). The more sunlight, the more caffeine in tea. Consequently, there is less caffeine in northern tea.