Functionality Makes The Promotion Of Tea Go Further

With the continuous improvement and exploration of human tea civilization for centuries, in addition to the color, fragrance, and taste, with the accumulation of a lot of practice, we have found that the functionality of tea should not be underestimated. In this article, we mainly explore the relationship between the basic components of tea and health.

The Basic Components Of Tea And Their Functions

1. Catechins:

Commonly known as tea tannin, it is a unique component of tea with bitterness, astringency. In tea soup, it can be combined with caffeine to alleviate the physiological effects of caffeine on the human body. It has anti-oxidation, anti-mutation, anti-tumor, lower blood cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein content, inhibit blood pressure rise, inhibit platelet aggregation, anti-bacterial, anti-product allergy and other effects.

2. Caffeine:

It has a bitter taste and is an important component of the taste of tea soup. In black tea soup, it combines with polyphenols to form a compound. after the tea soup is cooled, it forms an emulsification phenomenon. The unique catechins and their oxidized compounds in tea can slow down and sustain the excitatory effect of caffeine, so drinking tea can keep people who drive long distances clear-headed and have more endurance.

3. Minerals:

Tea is rich in 11 kinds of minerals including potassium, calcium, magnesium and manganese. Tea soup contains more cations and less anions, which belongs to alkaline food. It can help maintain body fluids alkaline and keep you healthy.

① Potassium: Promote blood sodium excretion. High blood sodium content is one of the causes of high blood pressure. Drinking more tea can prevent high blood pressure.

② Fluorine: It has the effect of preventing tooth decay.

③ Manganese: It has anti-oxidation and anti-aging effects, enhances immune function, and helps calcium utilization. Because it is insoluble in hot water, it can be ground into tea powder for consumption.

4. Vitamins:

① Carotenoids: they can be converted into vitamins in the human body, but they can only be supplemented by drinking them with tea.

②Vitamins B and vitamin C: are water-soluble and can be obtained from drinking tea.

5. Other functional ingredients:

①Flavonoid alcohols have the effect of strengthening the microvascular wall and eliminating bad breath.

② Saponin has anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects.

③Aminobutyric acid is produced by forcing tea leaves to undergo anaerobic respiration during the tea making process. It is said that Jiayelong tea can prevent high blood pressure.

Like the origin of any species, the origin and existence of tea must have been before humans discovered and utilized tea trees, and they were not discovered and utilized until a long, long time later. The human experience of using tea has also been passed down from generation to generation, and gradually expanded from local areas, and it took a long time before it gradually appeared in written records.

At the same time, the fast-paced life makes people have to care about whether the current products are good for our bodies. Human beings have realized from the beginning of "drinking tea does not seem to be harmful" to the current "drinking tea really helps to treat cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, etc.'.

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