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What are the benefits of green tea?
Green tea is one of the main teas in China, which has the functions of delaying aging, reducing blood fat and reducing weight and fat. It refers to a beverage made from new leaves or buds of tea trees without fermentation, after deactivation, shaping and drying. The color of the finished product and the brewed tea soup retain the green style of new tea. Drinking green tea often has the effects of delaying aging, reducing blood fat and slimming.

1, Anti-aging: Antioxidants contained in green tea are helpful for anti-aging. If it is over-oxidized, it will produce a lot of free radicals, which will easily lead to aging and damage cells. SOD (Superoxide Dismutase) is a kind of free radical scavenger, which can effectively remove excess free radicals and prevent the harm of free radicals to human body. Catechins in green tea can significantly improve SOD activity and scavenge free radicals.

2. Prevent dental caries and remove bad breath: Green tea contains fluorine, among which catechins can delay the occurrence of dental caries and reduce the occurrence of dental plaque and periodontitis. Tannic acid contained in green tea has bactericidal effect, which can prevent food residues from breeding bacteria, so it can effectively prevent bad breath.

3. Hypolipidemic: Catechin in green tea can reduce the contents of total cholesterol, free cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in plasma, and at the same time increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Green tea contains flavonol, which has antioxidant effect, can prevent thrombosis and platelet aggregation, and can reduce the probability of cardiovascular disease.

4, slimming and fat reduction: green tea contains theophylline and caffeine, which can reduce the accumulation of fat cells, thus achieving the purpose of losing weight.

5. Beauty makes the skin smoother and more delicate.

6. It can also reduce cholesterol in the blood, diminish inflammation, benefit bacteria, and even have a certain anticancer effect. The efficacy of the above green tea has been verified in animal experiments and human experiments.