Green Tea-----Catechins

How Much do you Know about Green Tea?

Green tea is made from the new leaves or buds of tea plants without fermentation and through the processes of killing, shaping and drying. It retains the natural substances of fresh leaves and contains nutrients such as tea polyphenols, catechins, chlorophyll, caffeine, amino acids and vitamins.

Catechin, also known as catechins, tea tannins and catechin, is a kind of phenolic active substances extracted from natural plants such as tea. It is a group of substances with antioxidant activity and the most important kind of tea polyphenols, accounting for about 75% to 80% of the content of tea polyphenols. It is also one of the sources of the bitter taste of tea.

Catechin has the functions of antioxidation and scavenging free radicals, which can promote endothelial function and help improve the condition of diabetic patients, because it can improve acetylcholinesterase activity, and it is also an ideal health product suitable for athletes, because it has the functions of synthetic metabolism and muscle strength. Other studies have also found that epicatechin (EC) can promote heart health.

The main uses of catechins are:

1. The Scientific Conference on obesity of China control center sponsored by the China Office of the international society of life sciences has been held. Lipton tea research institute also reported its research results: catechins in green tea have an obvious effect on human fat metabolism and fat distribution, especially the reduction of visceral fat, and can be used in weight loss products.

2. Industry

It is a reducing polyphenol, which is easy to be oxidized by air in aqueous solution. It is often used as an antioxidant. It can also be used in dye and tanning industry.

3. Pharmacological action

Catechin is an important component of tea, which has many functions, such as preventing cardiovascular diseases and cancer. D-catechin can also reduce the permeability of capillaries, stoping diarrhea, stoping bleeding, resisting virus, killing fungi, inhibiting ace and preventing gastric ulcer.