Side effects of lemon green tea you never knew about

Posted by Sanjay KC on June 4th, 2019

According to Purdue University, lemon boosts the health benefits of green tea, as citrus juice makes green tea’s antioxidants more readily available for your body. Catechism prefers an acidic rather than alkaline environment. As the tea passes from your stomach — acidic — to the increasingly alkaline environment of your small intestine, the catechism is broken down. Your body can absorb up to six times more catechism that it would otherwise by combining lemon juice with your green tea. Lemon juice also reduces the effect of certain compounds in green tea that can restrict your ability to absorb iron from foods.

Lemon Green Tea is naturally rich in vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant. Vitamin C is vital for the development and repair of your body’s tissues, including skin, ligaments, blood vessels, bones, cartilage, and teeth. Vitamin C is also important for helping heal wounds and produce scar tissue. The juice from one lemon contains 18.6 milligrams of vitamin C per serving. The recommended dietary allowance of vitamin C is 90 milligrams for men and 75 milligrams for women.

Catechism, the main health compound in tea tied to a reduced risk of cancer, heart attack, and other diseases, unfortunately, isn't absorbed very well in the intestines. After digestion, less than 20 percent of catechism remains. In two studies, Purdue University researchers found that adding lemon juice, other citrus juice, or vitamin C helped the body absorb as much as 13 times the healthy catechism than normal. The addition of lemon juice caused 80 percent of the catechism to remain. The studies tested the effects of absorption with both rats and a human digestive model.

The researchers note that if you don't want to squeeze a lemon into your cup, you could also just have a glass of citrus juice with your green tea or look for ready-made products that have 100 percent of the daily recommended vitamin C. It's also worth mentioning that one of the studies also showed adding sugar with the lemon juice helped absorption, but sugar isn't required.

Although a human clinical trial hasn't been concluded yet, another study of over 42,000 Japanese men and women found that eating citrus fruit every day and also drinking at least one cup of green tea a day was significantly correlated with reduced cancer risk.

Time for a cup of tea!