Of tea with the lemon for an increased effect antioxidant

September 04, 2008 Category: Relationships Print This Article

The traditional tea with the lemon would present some advantages beyond the simple gustatory pleasure: the citrus fruit would have the effect of preserving a big part of the tea antioxidants that would be destroyed otherwise. It is what the results of a track indicate in laboratory to the university of Perdue, to the United States.

Tea contains them, of the antioxidants to which one assigns protective virtues against the cancer and the cardiovascular unrests. According to the researchers, about 80% of them would be destroyed in the digestive system before can pass in blood, where they could play their protective role.

The researchers reproduced, in laboratory, the conditions to which are submitted a brewing of green tea leaves during the digestion. Added to the green tea, the juices of lemon, orange, file and grapefruit and even the milk of cow, soy or rice permitted to increase the number of molecules antioxidants in blood.

The juices of citrus fruits were in this regard the most efficient, more particularly the juice of lemon that permitted to preserve more than 80% of the that the drink contains. The green tea containing 50% of cow milk would have preserved 52% of the. This proportion was of 55% with the milk of soy and 69% with the milk of rice.

It would be necessary to push the research now in order to know if this protective effect of the antioxidants really results in a better absorption of the by a human organism, underline the authors of the survey. " The process of the digestion in the human body is a lot more complex than what one could reproduce in vitro in our laboratories", makes notice one of the researchers.

With or without milk?

Milk added to tea didn’t get any positive results however in a survey published in the beginning of the year 20072. The consumption of only black tea would improve the capacity of the arteries to relax or to dilate itself/themselves to accommodate the increase of the blood stream. The addition of milk would erase the effects vasodilators, according to this survey, completely.

The guilty parties would be the casein’s, of the proteins contained in milk. They would bind to the and would annul the beneficial effects thus of it. This survey has been led by 16 women.