The Benefits of White Tea
Amazing benefits of white tea
Tea has been used as medicine for millenia. Now modern science is discovering what people in China have long known: tea is good for you. While green and black tea are very healthy, white tea is the least processed tea and so has the highest antioxidant levels. It may be the world's best health drink.
Today, everyone extols white tea’s delicate flavor and numerous health benefits. Market researchers predict consumers will soon make white tea into one of the hottest new food items.
But, what is white tea? Most tea aficionados know that all tea comes from the same source: the Camilla Sinensis tea bush.
White teas are unfermented teas made from very young tea leaves or buds that are steamed immediately after harvest to prevent oxidization and then dried.
This is the secret why white tea has a higher polyphenol level than green or black tea. Although still very rich in catechins, green teas can have slightly lower catechin concentrations than white teas.
White tea protects against cancer, heart disease, and stroke, the leading causes of death in the industrial world, as well as numerous other conditions. It boosts the immune system and helps lower high cholesterol. White tea strengthens the circulatory system as well as bones and teeth, and repairs damaged skin.
Many of the studies of the beneficial effects of drinking tea have focused on green tea, not white tea. However, since white tea contains more antioxidants than green tea, and is closer to its natural state, we can probably assume that the benefits of white tea are even more pronounced.
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