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Green Tea With Lemon Is A Great Food Combination For Your Health


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 likely agree that food combination can hurt or help a person's physical condition. A person who is suffering indigestion from a buffet may blame the "All You Can Eat" policy, but in some cases bad food combination is the contributing problem. For example, mixing melon with another food is a bad 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.


Olives and tomatoes are a great combination. In the realm of nutrition, tomatoes are recognized as a good source of Lycopene. Lycopene provides health improvements like heart diseases and cancer prevention. When tomatoes are ingested simultaneously with olives the benefits are enhanced. Olives enhance the absorption process of Lycopene. Now what about green tea and lemon?

Weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart, digestive aid and diabetes prevention are some of the tea benefits. Thanks to green tea's antioxidant known as catechins the health benefits are all possible. Although the benefits of catechins are great, researches indicate that these antioxidants are unstable inside the human intestines after digestion only about 20 percent of them is available 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 the addition of Vitamin C, human intestine turns to an acidic environment for catechins. Doing this makes catechins to be more available for absorption. In fact it does not have to be lemon. Any citrus juice like grapefruit, orange or lime will help with the absorption function. Yet lemon seems to be the most effective of all suggesting that some other elements of lemon are also helping the stabilizing effect.

Because the natural taste of tea is bitter, drinking tea with lemon juice can be tastier. For individuals looking for an alternative to tea, there are also a lot of green tea capsules with vitamin C.



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