By Roger Flynn


The benefits of green tea will be greatly boosted if lemon is mixed. To be able to understand this principle, we must first look into the negative and positive effects of food combination.

Many diet experts will likely agree that food combination can negatively or positively influence a person's physical condition. An individual in discomfort with heartburn from a buffet style meal may blame the amount of food, yet in many instances poor food mixing is the contributing issue. For example, blending melon with another food is not a good decision.

Fruits generally are digested in the stomach without having difficulty. Melons digest even faster than other fruit, since they are over 90 percent water. If the food digestion is delayed caused by blending with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach potentially resulting in indigestion, excessive gas, acid reflux and upset stomach. On the flip side, some food combinations improve the health benefits by supporting the absorption process.

An example of an excellent combination is tomatoes and olives. Tomatoes are known to be a fantastic provider of Lycopene in the dietary world. Cancer and heart diseases prevention are some of the well-known health benefits of Lycopene. Health benefits are improved when tomatoes are consumed together with olives. Absorption process of Lycopene is improved by olives. Now what about green tea with lemon?

Some recognized tea benefits are digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss, cancer prevention and healthy heart. Due to green tea's antioxidant known as catechins the health benefits are achievable. Despite the many benefits of catechins, researches indicate these antioxidants are degraded easily inside the human intestines following digestion allowing no more than 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon is also known for antioxidant that is vitamin C. It helps with some of lemon's positive aspects for example digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Even more importantly vitamin C offers more desirable environment for catechins to survive when mixed together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine turns to an acidic environment for catechins. This makes catechins to be more available for absorption. After all it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus fruit juice such as orange, lime or grapefruit will increase the absorption function. However lemon juice appears to be the most effective of all suggesting that additional components of lemon juice also are helping to the absorption availability.

Since the natural taste of tea is bitter, combining tea and lemon juice can be tastier. For those trying to find an option to green tea, there are many selections of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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