What Is Green Tea? 

All types of tea come from the camellia sinensis plant, while best green tea gets its name from its distinctive green hue when brewed unprocessed and unfermented leaves.

With origins dating back 5,000 years, green tea is widely consumed and grown throughout East Asia due to its healthful qualities.

Organic Green tea benefits include:

High levels of protective plant compounds known as polyphenols may help promote focus, attention and calm; protect the brain; boost metabolism; support blood sugar control (reducing diabetes risk); support blood pressure control; help boost metabolism ( increasing metabolism); boost metabolism for faster weight loss); aid blood pressure regulation ( lowering heart disease risk), improve bone health ( lowering blood pressure risk); promote bone health ( support bone health ) as well as improving gut health.

1. Rich in protective plant compounds known as polyphenols 

Polyphenols are known to play an essential role in maintaining good health by helping the body combat disease, making a balanced diet much simpler and ensuring it has all of the antioxidant protection it needs from food like fruits, vegetables and other unprocessed products. They can be found abundantly throughout fruit, vegetables and other sources that don't contain additives or preservatives.

Flavored green tea offers many health advantages, which are often attributed to its relatively unprocessed form and abundance of plant compounds like flavonoids (catechins and epigallocatechin gallate [EGCG] being especially potency). These bioactive constituents include catechins and epigallocatechin gallate [EGCG].

2. Enhancing Focus and Attention 

Green tea contains natural stimulants like caffeine that, although less potency than in coffee, may still aid alertness and focus.

3. Promotes Calm

Best green tea contains L-theanine, an amino acid known to have relaxing effects; this works by increasing GABA, dopamine and serotonin production in your brain - three chemicals linked with positive emotions.

4. May Protect Brain

Green tea's protective polyphenols could slow the deterioration caused by age.

5. May Stimulate Metabolism

Organic green tea may help overweight or obese individuals achieve weight loss through its natural thermogenic effects provided by caffeine and plant compounds like catechins.

6. May Help Manage Blood Sugar

Studies suggest green tea could have an indirect effect of aiding with managing blood sugar. By improving insulin sensitivity and helping manage its effects on glucose, green tea may play an integral part in controlling the effects of blood sugar management.

7. May Lower Diabetes Risk

Tea polyphenols have the ability to inhibit digestive enzymes such as lactase and delay glucose uptake into the gut, leading some studies to believe that regular consumption of green tea polyphenols over time could reduce your risk of diabetes as effectively as taking medication; further studies are still required, however.

• Chinmay Mandlekar
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