Green tea is one of the most popular toning and calming drinks. Knows about advantage and antioxidant properties of tea drink practically everyone. Whether there is a harm and any contraindications to its use and also whether it is possible to lose weight by means of tea — we will consider more in details.
Why green tea
Tea turns out green because crude tea leaflets are exposed to small oxidation (fermentation) — from 3 to 10%. It allows it to be stronger antioksadant in comparison with black tea.
It is remarkable that black and green tea leaflets make from one bush, and here their final color and the chemical composition, will depend on a way of processing.
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Green tea has the rich chemical composition, thanks to it it also shows the natural curative properties.
Vitamins and minerals
The vitamin grid of green tea leaves is very extensive - it is vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, E, F, K, PP, C and U. All of them make a certain impact on work of internal systems of the person.
The most powerful antioxidant from them is a vitamin C: it strengthens immunity, protecting it from various viruses. Concerning macro - and minerals, they are present at tea drink almost in full Mendeleyev's tables - it is both magnesium, and phosphorus, calcium, iodine, copper, potassium and the others.
Consumption of green tea can fill an imbalance of minerals in a human body and support the correct work of many functional systems.
Whether you know? According to an ancient legend, tea drink arose absolutely accidentally: in the 3rd century to N e to one Chinese emperor who had a rest under a camellia tree, the servant brought hot water for drink. Several leaves accidentally fell in a cup when the emperor drank — and he strongly was surprised to the turned-out fragrant smell and taste of drink. Since then Chinese also began to experiment with tea components, creating different grades and tastes of drink.
Alkaloids and flavonoids
These are the integral components of green tea. Catechins (antioxidant flavonoids) and caffeine belong to them.
These components several times exceed positive effect which is rendered by minerals — their so powerful influence. At the expense of them green tea found to itself glory of a natural ustranitel of cancer tumors.
They help the immune system, considerably strengthening it and destroying viruses and microbes. Caffeine, in turn, is the catalyst of nervous system, renders the invigorating and toning effect.
For anybody any more not a secret that there is a lot of caffeine not in coffee, namely in green tea: in a cup of such drink substances, than in the same amount of espresso are twice more.
About advantage of green drink
Let's consider advantage of this ancient drink in terms of pluses for a female body — on statistical data, women use more than black and green tea in comparison with men.
Besides the calming and toning properties, green tea leaves are capable to create a real miracle: to lower menstrual pain and head spasms. Drink and for treatment of some illnesses connected with violations of an endocrine system (but not is irreplaceable at a tireoidita).
Researches showed that the elderly women who are regularly consuming green tea had less problems with fragility of joints.
Besides, this really imperial drink reduces risk of appearance of breast cancer by 90% — and these are really confirmed facts.
For prevention of breast cancer spelled, rape oil, onion use grain.
Drink from green leaflets helps to cope with a nausea attack at pregnancy, to cure cystitis, positively influences work of a digestive tract and health in general — moreover, reduces stress and improves mood.
At cystitis also use bay leaf, a grass a chaber, cape gooseberry, hop cones, cowberry leaves, pumpkin, a cranberry.
And each woman knows about the rejuvenating effect of such drink, perhaps: not for nothing in China (which, by the way, is the homeland of a tea plant), there are so much long-livers.
Whether it is possible green tea
At undoubted advantage of drink nevertheless there is a group of people who should limit consumption of such product in certain circumstances.
To pregnant women
As there are a lot of pregnant women who wishing to reduce stress and fatigue, take this fragrant hot drink! Certainly, women can have green tea in the family way, but in the correct dosage. The excessive enthusiasm for this product results in the worst digestibility of folic acid — the major element for future kid.
Folic acid contains in such products as pearl barley, sauerkraut, a lemon, a cauliflower, crude beet, a sea-buckthorn, avocado.
The absence or lack of this folic component can lead to the baby's birth with congenital pathologies.
Fortunately, there will be it can only as a result of daily repeated exaggeration of consumption rate — we will tell if future mother drinks more than 5-6 cups a day.
Besides, the high content of caffeine can negatively affect warm activity of mother and kid therefore it is worth being limited to 2-3 cups of rather weak drink a day: in this case you receive only a powerful vitamin charge and antioxidant properties, but do not do any harm to yourself and the kid.
Feeding
Doctors established that reception of a cup of rather weak green tea before feeding helps formation of milk with a breast: tea drink has laktatsionny properties. It not only can increase quantity, but also quality of breast milk.
The same antioxidant qualities in this case play also a role of immune protection for the baby: with mother's milk it absorbs all those necessary minerals which are responsible for the correct development of various functional systems of the baby.
Besides, such breast milk sated with tea will promote calm of the kid and also will remove gripes and spasms of a stomach.
During critical days
The advantage of green drink at PMS and in critical days is also clear: besides the calming and toning effect, green tea leaves remove stomach spasms, will eliminate menstrual pain and will increase mood.
However there is an opinion that the use of a large number of green tea drink is capable to cause failures in a hormonal system and to detain or accelerate monthly.
Properties of a coriander, grapefruit, linden, sesame oil are capable to normalize a menstrual cycle.
The official medicine does not give confirmation to this opinion, however warns against excessive use of such drink during the critical period.
Rules of the choice of quality green drink
In order that among the wide range of tea products to choose really quality product, adhere to such recommendations:
- Origin. The real quality drink has to grow and be is picked on the ball not less, than 1000 meters — there for it ideal conditions are created: both the purest air, and optimum balance of the sun and moisture and also necessary mineral composition of soil.
- The price — though not the main, but an essential indicator of quality of a grade. Remember that in the manufacturing country (whether it be China or India), the price for 1 kg of tea leaflets begins from $200 for kg. Therefore it is clear that in our country it cannot cheaper cost $500-600 for 1 kg in any way, and at a standard 100-gram pack the price will begin from $5.
- Freshness — 1 one of the main conditions of a quality product. The most expensive is tea from one-month leaflets. At three-months leaflets the price is already much lower though useful properties remain almost invariable. And here tea which is stored already more than half a year has very poor quality, and respectively, the price. This principle does not concern some Pu-erh — a grade which is specially subjected to long storage in certain conditions.
In addition, we pay attention to color and appearance of leaflets:
- The color shade has to be light — from bright green to silvery. If color dark green is a grade of poor quality.
- Leaflets can be twisted differently — more or less twirled. However it is important to understand: the stronger leaves, the more brightly are twirled and nasyshchenny there will be a taste and aroma of drink and vice versa.
- Garbage (shanks, small stalks and other) there has to be very little, or such phenomena have to be absent at all.
- By Tselnolistova large or small, crushed — of course, it is better to choose tea leaves krupnolistovy: so you can observe behind appearance of a leaf, its quality and uniform structure in packing. It is easier to mix low-grade tea leaves with the crushed leaflets and to spoil taste and quality of products.
- Melkolistovy tea leaves most often are granulated (this look turns out as a result of processing by the special car with rollers which twist leaflets), however recently release also krupnolistovy grades of such look. Pay attention: if on packing it is specified that granulated tea tselnolistovy or krupnolistovy — granules have to be the big size: not less than 2 cm.
Where to store green tea
The real green and yellow Chinese tea needs to be stored only in the freezer. In general optimum temperature for transportation and storage of this product in China is temperature of -18 °C, however and in the ordinary freezer at -3 °C to it it will be quite good.
Thus, the correct storage of a tea product has to be responsible for that tea leaves in the life faced heat only once — at a zavarivaniye.
Only in this case they will give all the useful properties and will sate drink with aroma and magnificent taste. Of course, it is not necessary to store usual low-grade tea in the deep freeze — it will not keep its quality.
It is better to store tea in vacuum packing in the dry place where there will be no risk of emergence of a mold — for example, in a kitchen cabinet.
Rules of a zavarivaniye and consumption of tea
Before it is necessary to understand that quality drink will turn out not only due to use of good mountain tea leaves, but also due to water quality:
- optimum proportion for green tea is 1 teaspoon on a glass of water;
- time of a zavarivaniye depends on what effect of tea you want to gain: weakening and toning, or opposite, invigorating. For the first case it is necessary to make tea at a temperature of 75 °C no more than 1 minute, and in the second — to increase time up to 2-3 minutes, and water temperature — to 85 °C;
- the best water for tea drink — clean spring. However as today only very limited circle of people has access to springs, it is recommended to use the filtered water;
- ideal ware for a zavarivaniye — clay: it holds heat longer. Use of a porcelain or pig-iron teapot is allowed.
It is important! If you want to receive high-quality drink, its zavarivaniye in the enameled ware is inadmissible
The procedure of a zavarivaniye of the correct tea looks so:
- The teapot is warmed up (it is possible to make it in the microwave, an oven or over naked flame).
- The clean spoon fills tea leaves.
- Then ware muffles a towel or a napkin and is heated so within 2-3 minutes.
- Then it is necessary to take off a towel, to fill in a teapot with water on one third and to take tincture under the closed cover 2 more minutes.
- After that to add water up to the top and to allow to infuse 2 more minutes.
- Before pouring drink, to rinse cups hot water.
Green tea and beauty
In cosmetology long since already use a green tea concentrate for decrease in puffiness, improvement of color and quality of skin and also for the complex procedure of rejuvenation.
Recipes of face packs
Quickly to give freshness to the face, to take off fatigue and to improve skin color, such mask is used:
- To fill in 2 tablespoons of any green tea, to cool.
- To add a teaspoon of lemon juice and a pinch of a turmeric, it is good to stir.
- Cotton tampon to apply this gruel to skin, to leave before full drying. Then repeatedly to put the second layer.
- To take a mask of 10-15 minutes, to wash away warm water.
Quickly to smooth wrinkles and to reduce puffiness of the person, there is such recipe:
- The tablespoon of green tea is ready abrupt boiled water.
- To trouble within 5 minutes.
- To add a tablespoon of fat sour cream to tincture, to mix and impose properly on face skin for 20 minutes. Then to wash away cool water.
Whether you know? In Medieval Europe not all knew how it is correct to use the tea leaves delivered from China. So, they were often added to salad in the dried look.
Recipes of masks for hair
To return gloss to hair, to make them obedient and silky such way can: after each washing of the head to rinse hair with freshly brewed green tincture. It is not necessary to wash away it.
If to carry out this procedure within 14 days, then it is possible to see that hair began to drop out in much smaller quantity.
On hair care actively use chicory, castor oil, a cornflower blue, cocoa butter, mustard oil, coconut oil.
Recovery of structure of a hair and reduction of fat content is possible thanks to such recipe:
- Small to crush leaf tea (2 tablespoons).
- To mix the received flour and egg to a uniform state. It is good to shake up a nimbus.
- To rub mix in roots, to distribute on all length. To cover the head with a package and to wrap up with a towel.
- To leave for 20-30 minutes.
- To wash away cold water (or water of room temperature).
It is important! If hair of average length or very long, you need 2 or 3 eggs — respectively, and the proportion of tea flour needs to be increased too.
Green tea, woman, weight loss: where interrelation
Green tea drink is an invariable component of the majority of modern diets and fasting days: it is clinically proved that consumption of this tincture is capable to lower all to 2 kg a month without additional efforts!
Catechins considerably accelerate metabolism and a metabolism, bring toxins and subcutaneous fat out of an organism, thus promoting weight reduction.
Besides, having drunk a cup of tea, you fill a stomach with useful drink — and will be hungry you less (the appetite can be gone till 2 o'clock). Thanks to zero caloric content, he does not add excess calories and gives the chance to use it practically in unlimited number.
In addition, it well calms nerves, perfectly tones up an organism that is a pleasant bonus milking all growing thin women.
Certainly, it is impossible to have only one tea — it is necessary for an organism from where to scoop energy for activity — however they can replace many unnecessary high-calorie products.
Whether useful properties of drink at addition of milk are lost
The advantage of tea with milk not only does not decrease, but also is increased: useful enzymes of milk are added to advantage and vitamin complexes of tea. Such drink stimulates intellectual activity, very well stimulates protective functions of the immune system. However in our latitudes it is not accepted to consume tea with milk, unlike the East where drink practically only such drink (the truth, with salt addition).
Drink very well restores stomach microflora, does possible consumption of tea by the suffering gastritis and an ulcer (unlike green tea in pure form which is not recommended to be used to people with such problems).
In addition, milk reduces effect of caffeine therefore the people having heart failure can enjoy such cocktail bravely.
Black, green or grassy: what is the best of all for the woman
Often people prefer some one type of tea drink: fans of green drink and do not switch to black tea, and there are such which have exclusively herbal tea with a camomile. What of them is more useful — we will consider more in details.
Whether you know? Statistically, every second on our planet more than 2 million cups of tea are drunk.
Black
In black tea contains much less caffeine, than in its green analog, and on antioxidant properties he ranks second honourable (after green). It blocks cancer cells too and reduces cholesterol level.
Most of all such drink is taken by British and Americans. However to have stale tea (it is admissible, made yesterday) can threaten with serious consequences: in such tea leaves harmful tannins are emitted. Also it is impossible to give black tea to children and it is undesirable to drink to pregnant women.
Green
We talked about advantage of such grade above — it is necessary to add that green grades use generally in the east.
In comparison with black grades, green tea leaves contain more caffeine therefore if to drink 2-3 cups of such drink, it is possible to gain not calming effect, and opposite, exciting, and, besides, increase in warm activity.
Such tea is also not recommended to little children — better to give it in a slabozavarenny look from 5-6 years.
Grassy
Herbal tea, unlike two previous, has the much bigger range and a variety: it can be on the basis of a camomile, a ginseng, a basil, a linden, mint, a tea rose and many other plants.
However such tea has special indications to the use — because of those properties which render the components entering it (it can be both positive, and negative properties).
Most often herbal tea is appointed in the specific medical goals, and here its daily use is not recommended. Abuse of such medicinal tincture can render negative effect.
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