Drinking tea with sugar is harmless to people; But it's not appropriate. Tea is not only a drink, but also contains spiritual connotation. Especially good tea, its fragrance and taste are worthy of careful tasting and experience. Once spices are added, it will lose its taste.
Therefore, the ancients talked about ten kinds of tea drinking, and there was a saying that "children should add sugar to tea drinking". Moreover, jasmine tea with sugar may taste good, but it will turn sour after drinking; It is recommended to drink vegetarian tea, and it is also enjoyable to go through hardships.
"Adding some sugar to tea is to improve the taste. Occasionally adding sugar does not affect it, depending on personal taste. But in the long run, drinking tea and adding sugar for a long time is unhealthy and not recommended. " From the nutritionist's point of view, the negative impact of adding sugar to tea on health comes more from excessive energy intake.
For office workers, adding sugar to tea is beneficial to relieve stress, increase glucose lost in mental work, keep blood sugar stable, and replenish energy needed for work when there is occasional stress or lack of energy when staying up late. However, if sweetened tea is used as a general drink in large quantities, its effect is comparable to that of sweet drinks, which is harmful to human health.
When drinking chrysanthemum tea, people often like to add a few crystal sugar to increase the taste. Professor Chang believes that it is ok to add rock sugar to chrysanthemum tea, but for people with diabetes or high blood sugar, it is best not to add sugar, and they can drink chrysanthemum alone.
In addition, some people with spleen deficiency and wet kidney should not add sugar, because too sweet tea will make such people thirsty, sour mouth and salivate, and feel uncomfortable. Therefore, people who don't know their physique should drink chrysanthemum tea without adding rock sugar.
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Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar has the functions of moistening lung and relieving cough, resolving phlegm and removing fire. It is also an auxiliary material for brewing medicinal liquor and stewing tonic.
Crystal sugar has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and turbidity, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, stopping sweating and detoxicating, and can be used for treating diseases such as deficiency of middle warmer, cough due to lung heat, expectoration with blood, chronic cough due to yin deficiency, dry mouth and sore throat, night sweats in children, toothache due to wind-fire and so on.
Rock sugar is flat, has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is widely used in high-grade tonics and health products produced by food and pharmaceutical industries. Old people can also quench their thirst by containing rock sugar.
Rock candy can supplement water and sugar in the body, and has the functions of supplementing body fluids, supplying energy, supplementing blood sugar, strengthening the heart and diuresis, and detoxifying. Indications: its 5% solution is isotonic solution, which is used for all kinds of acute poisoning and promotes the excretion of poisons; 10%~50% is a high solution, which is used for hypoglycemia and malnutrition, or for treating heart failure, brain edema and pulmonary edema.
Health care function of tea;
1 can reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and death.
According to research reports, Japanese researchers have followed up more than 40,000 middle-aged and elderly people aged 40 to 79 in a certain place since 1994. Compared with people who drink less than 1 cup of tea every day, the average risk of death from cerebrovascular diseases in men who drink more than 5 cups of green tea every day has decreased by 22%, while in women it has decreased by 3 1%, with the most obvious decline in cerebral infarction and 42% in men.
2. It can lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have found that drinking tea can reduce blood total cholesterol levels by 25%. Another survey on the relationship between drinking tea and the incidence of hypertension found that the incidence of hypertension was 10.55% for people who didn't drink tea, and 6.95% for people who drank tea regularly. Tea does have a certain antihypertensive effect.
3, help reduce the risk of diabetes.
Long-term follow-up observation of 1.7 thousand men and women aged 40 -65 found that people who drink more than 6 cups of green tea every day have a lower risk of diabetes than those who drink less than 1 cup every week. There are also data showing that drinking cold boiled green tea is more effective in preventing and treating diabetes.
4. It is helpful to prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease.
Tea has protective effect on brain cells. Tea can effectively delay brain degeneration and help maintain cerebrovascular health. The latest research shows that drinking more tea can improve memory and prevent Alzheimer's disease.
5. It has anti-stress and anti-anxiety effects.
Modern life and work are fast-paced and stressful, which often causes psychological symptoms such as anxiety, tension, irritability and depression. Green tea contains theanine, which is a relaxant with no sedative effect and can help the brain increase the production of gamma waves. Gamma wave can help control anxiety, improve attention, improve mental state and overall function. Generally, 3-4 cups of green tea can contain 65,438+000-200mg of theanine, which makes green tea have better effects in anti-stress and anti-anxiety.
6, can improve immunity
Researchers at Harvard University pointed out that people who drink five cups of tea every day for two weeks will produce a large amount of antiviral interferon, which is 10 times that of people who don't drink tea. This anti-infective protein can improve human immunity and effectively help people resist influenza.
7, can improve the bactericidal power
In May 2008, it was reported that some scholars in Egypt tested 28 kinds of germs with "green tea plus antibiotics". The results show that green tea can greatly improve the antibacterial effect, and the highest sterilization efficiency can be increased by more than 3 times. But also can reduce the drug resistance of various bacteria.
8. It has slimming effect.
The researchers found that compared with people who don't drink tea, people who drink tea for more than 65,438+00 years lose about 20% of body fat in men and 30% in women. Drinking tea and losing weight is a wonderful thing! Not only that, tea is also a beauty agent, which has a good protective effect on the skin, and people who drink more tea are also beautiful.
9. Other health functions
Tea can also relieve fatigue, refresh, improve eyesight, promote digestion, induce diuresis and detoxify, prevent dental caries and eliminate bad breath. Tea is also an alkaline drink, which is beneficial to the correction of acidic constitution.
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