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Is drinking black tea healthy or green tea healthy?
Which is healthier, green tea or black tea?

The emphasis is different, and what suits you is healthy.

From the point of view of raw materials, there is not much difference between green tea and black tea, but there are differences in the content, variety and taste of the functional components retained by the two teas due to the different production techniques.

Black tea is fermented tea. In the process of processing, the loss of tea polyphenols in black tea is far more than that in green tea.

Green tea is cold, black tea is warm, and people with cold constitution should not drink green tea, but black tea. Drinking green tea in summer can relieve summer heat, and drinking black tea in winter can avoid stomach cold and bloating.

Young people should drink green tea, and the elderly have poor spleen and stomach function, so they should drink black tea.

In addition, green tea is suitable for people who often come into contact with toxic substances or work in an environment with serious air pollution, as well as people who like tobacco and alcohol; Black tea is suitable for people who exercise and do manual work, as well as those who are weak.

Tea polyphenols and theanine are the main antihypertensive components in tea, but caffeine contained in them will increase blood pressure. The molecular level detection of components in black tea and green tea shows that the average content of tea polyphenols and theanine in green tea is higher than that in black tea, while the average content of caffeine is relatively low, so from this point of view, green tea is more suitable for people with hypertension.