If there’s one beverage you should be sipping daily, besides water, of course, it’s green tea. Green tea is often touted as the world’s healthiest beverage, and there are numerous reasons it’s earned that title. It comes with a myriad of health benefits and surprisingly, could even help you manage your weight.
What s the Difference Between Green and Black Tea?
Green tea has the same origins as black tea, namely the Camellia sinensis plant, and both contain the same components like health-promoting flavonoids, caffeine, fluoride, and theanine. So what makes one green and the other black? “Tea leaves undergo different processes to make green and black teas and this impacts the flavonoid content,” says Carrie Ruxton, Ph.D., a dietitian with the Tea Advisory Panel.
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Ask anybody who’s tried to lose weight what’s in their toolbox of tricks, and no doubt they’ll cite intermittent fasting, high-intensity interval (HIIT) workouts, maybe even a plant-based diet. The one thing that is probably not at the top of their list, but should be? Tea.
Tea, the world’s most popular drink behind water, which almost 80 percent of American households have on hand, packs a myriad of health benefits. While weight loss may not be among the ones that are best known, recent studies are starting to change that dialogue. So could it be time to say Tea it up! if you want to slim down? The answer appears to be yes.