Thursday 13 September 2012

Does Lemon Juice Enhance Green Tea Benefits?

By Roger Flynn


The benefits of green tea can be drastically increased if lemon is added. To be able to understand this principle, one must first look into the importance of combining food.

A lot of nutrition experts will agree that blending food can negatively or positively affect a person's health condition. People in discomfort with acid reflux from a buffet may blame the "All You Can Eat" policy, but in most occasions poor food mixing is the contributing issue. For example, mixing melon with another food is a poor idea.

Fruits generally are digested in the stomach without having difficulty. Melons digest even faster than other fruit, since they are over 90 percent water. If the food digestion is delayed caused by blending with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach potentially resulting in indigestion, excessive gas, acid reflux and upset stomach. On the flip side, some food combinations improve the health benefits by supporting the absorption process.

An example of an excellent combination is tomatoes and olives. Tomatoes are known to be a fantastic provider of Lycopene in the dietary world. Cancer and heart diseases prevention are some of the well-known health benefits of Lycopene. Health benefits are improved when tomatoes are consumed together with olives. Absorption process of Lycopene is improved by olives. Now what about green tea with lemon?

Some recognized tea benefits are digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss, cancer prevention and healthy heart. Due to green tea's antioxidant known as catechins the health benefits are achievable. Despite the many benefits of catechins, researches indicate these antioxidants are degraded easily inside the human intestines following digestion allowing no more than 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon is also famous for antioxidant which 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 provides suitable environment for catechins to survive when blended together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine turns to an acidic environment for catechins. This makes catechins to be more available for absorption. After all it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus fruit juice such as orange, lime or grapefruit will increase the absorption function. However lemon juice appears to be the most effective of all suggesting that additional components of lemon juice also are helping to the absorption availability.

Adding lemon juice to tea may also be more delicious since green tea's natural flavor is bitter. For those looking for an alternative option to green tea, one can find many selections of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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