Good Food Combination - Green Tea With Lemon

By Neil Johnson


The benefits of green tea can be greatly higher when combined with lemon. To be able to comprehend this theory, let's first go over the importance of combining food.

Many diet experts will certainly agree that blending food can positively or negatively affect a person's health condition. Most people in discomfort with acid reflux after a buffet may blame the large amount of food, but in most instances poor food mixing is the contributing factor. As an example, blending melon with another food is not a smart idea.

Usually fruits are very easily digested inside the stomach. Melons break down even faster than other fruit, since they are more than 90 percent water. If the food digestion is delayed resulting from combination with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach potentially resulting in upset stomach, indigestion, excessive gas and acid reflux. On the other hand, some food mixtures increase the health rewards by helping the absorption.

One example of a good combination is olives and tomatoes. Tomatoes are recognized as a great provider of Lycopene in the realm of diet. Fight against heart diseases and protection from cancer are some of the well recognized benefits of Lycopene. Positive effects are enhanced when tomatoes are consumed simultaneously with olives. Absorption of Lycopene are increased by olives. Now what about lemon and tea?

Healthy heart, digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss and cancer prevention are the various green tea benefits. These health rewards are possible thanks to green tea's antioxidant, catechins. Despite the positive effects of catechins, studies show that these antioxidants are unstable in the human intestines after digestion allowing only around 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon is also known for antioxidant which is vitamin C. It helps with some of lemon's positive factors such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. More importantly vitamin C offers ideal environment for catechins to be available longer when blended together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine becomes an acidic environment for catechins. This allows catechins to be more available for absorption. In fact it does not have to be lemon. Any citrus fruit juice like grapefruit, orange or lime will boost the absorption function. Even so lemon seems to be the most effective of all indicating that other components of lemon juice also are helping the stabilizing effect.

Blending tea and lemon juice can also be more delicious considering green tea's natural flavor is bitter. For people searching for an option to green tea, there are a lot of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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