Health Benefits of Different Teas

The variety of teas available in the market are numerous and the health benefits are surprisingly vast, due to the presence of polyphenols.

Numerous tea variants ranging from green tea to organic, black, herbal and fruit-based infusions are available in the market with multiple brands. Drinking tea helps reduce stress, calms the body and various other benefits, if consumed in a definite time and manner. //

Razi Khan, Director, sales and marketing at Typhoo, and Kaushal Dugar, founder and CEO at Teabox, have listed some of the benefits that you can reap from some of the commonly used tea variants:

Black Tea Helps Protect Heart
Quercetin - a compound present in black tea protects blood vessels against oxidative damage and lowers heart disease risk, say researchers.

‘Drinking tea boosts immunity, improves bone density, relieves stress, lowers cholesterol levels, reduces the risk of obesity and diabetes.’

Black tea: Black tea is rarely mentioned in the context of tea's health benefits but it is rich in antioxidants, improves oral health, boosts weight loss and even brings down stress levels.

Also being an oxidised tea, it is known for having anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant properties that help control levels of bad cholesterol in the body, improve bone density, mitigate cardiovascular ailments and promote wellness.

Green tea: Being a storehouse of many antioxidant compounds, it's easy to assume that green tea is one of the healthiest beverages. According to traditional Chinese medicine, drinking green tea helps relieve body aches and pains, aids digestion, impacts the process of detoxification and, generally, enhances the quality of life.

Black Tea Matches Green Tea
The health-boosting properties of black tea and green tea are similar, says new study.

Aqueous extract of green tea polyphenols contains antimutagenic, antidiabetic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and hypocholesterolemic properties.

Oolong tea
Weight management: Oolong tea promotes fat metabolism (pushing the body to burn fat for energy), and blocks the absorption of excess fat and cholesterol. So regular consumption of oolong tea can boost your weight loss.

Tea-Lovers Rejoice! Your Favourite Beverage Can Help You Avoid Dementia
A simple and inexpensive lifestyle measure such as daily tea drinking can reduce a person's risk of developing neurocognitive disorders in late life.

Diabetes: Blood sugar and insulin can be regulated by oolong tea at any one time. This prevents the dangerous spikes and dips in blood sugar that spells disaster for type-2 diabetes patients. With regular medicines, oolong tea can balance the blood sugar levels.

Stress management: A controlled experiment performed on mice showed that 10 to 18 percent of subjects showed improvement in stress levels after consumption of oolong tea. The presence of natural polyphenols in it is cited as the reason.

Green Tea Might Help Patients With Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is currently one of the most common male cancers and the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Findings from a recent study

Source-IANS