Egcg Green Tea Bags

To maximize egcg content pour boiling water not just hot water over a green tea bag and let steep for 10 minutes before removing the bag and drinking.

Egcg green tea bags.

Tea with the most egcg. Snapple diet green tea had even less just 3 5 mg. Given the high egcg content quoted by the study i would venture to guess that more of the regular tea samples are of the loose tea varieties rather than tea bags. Bioavailability and antioxidant activity of tea flavanols after consumption of green tea black tea or a green tea extract supplement.

Egcg is known to have cytotoxic antioxidant and anti inflammatory properties making green tea a good natural option for increasing the quality of life. Am j clin nutr 2004 80 6 1558 1564. Egcg is one of the most powerful compounds in green tea. Most studies are based on 1 gram of tea per cup of water which is less than most people use.

However not all tea types have high levels of egcg. The only trade off with increased brewing time is a slight increase in bitterness. It s impossible to know the exact amount of egcg in each tea. Researchers have found as low as 2 31 and as high as 204 20 mg so you can imagine how widely teas vary.

Research has tested its ability to help treat various diseases. Unfortunately the study does not differentiate between the two. It appears to be one of the main compounds that gives green tea its. Honest green tea had 27 2 mg of egcg and arizona green tea ginseng honey had only 5 4 mg.

The average amount of egcg in loose leaf green tea is about 80 mg per gram of tea. The tea bags were steeped for 3 minutes in 100 ml of boiling water. Basically it means hot green tea brewed using either tea bags or loose tea leaves. The color of green tea brewed from tea bags is also not as green as loose tea see picture at top.

A study at the ucla center for human nutrition compared the catechins and caffeine of popular green tea bags. L and heber d. Loose tea on left tea bag on right.