Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life, Chinese researchers have found -- but the benefits of green tea are more pronounced
Chinese researchers found the health benefits associated with tea were more pronounced for drinkers of green, rather than black tea, and for those who had been drinking tea regularly over a longer period of time. The benefits were also clearer among men, the study indicated.
Gu also said that green tea is a richer source of flavanoids, especially tea polyphenols, and these bioactive compounds could be protective against cardiovascular disease. While from the same plant and containing the same amount of caffeine, black tea is processed in a different way from green tea after picking."Black tea is fully fermented and tea polyphenols might be oxidized into pigments and inactivate during fermentation.
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