Green tea: the answer to all of your problems?

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  Posted by Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:23pm PDT

  I have read that putting milk in tea counteracts the good the tea does for you. Apparently the milk does something to make you digest the tea before it can do its work in the body. I'm not sure that goes for soy milk, though, but wanted to give you a heads-up!

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  Posted by JenniferK Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:26pm PDT

  Try mixing it with another tea like a rooibos to tame the flavor. I mix mine with the Rooibos Tropica from Teavana and it is fabulous! Oh, and the honey helps too...

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  Posted by ddg425 Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:55pm PDT

  Take green tea supplements. Forget the tea.

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  Posted by hardyjiangffl Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:32pm PDT

  Try squeezing some fresh lemon juice into the tea. The tang adds a nice kick that masks the green tea flavor. Moreover, a recent study published in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research shows that catechins--which are the powerful antioxidants that provide the benefits you described-- break down in the stomach, leaving little to be absorbed by your intestines. The vitamin C and citric acid in lemon juice helps the catechins remain stable throughout digestion; the study showed that adding lemon juice to green tea caused 80% of the catechins to remain after passing through the stomach.

  As a green tea fan myself, I say invest in some high quality green tea; it tastes much better than the cheap stuff!

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  Posted by shineisfine Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:39pm PDT

  There are many sort of green tea. Keep free floating for 1-2 minutes only.

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  Posted by donna_maer Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:03am PDT

  yea....honey is a good suggestion i guess

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  Posted by Allison, SushiDay Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:52am PDT

  Honey helps, and like "nickel" I have heard that milk counteracts the health benefits of tea. You might also want to try the Honey Ginseng Green Tea from The Republic of Tea. I found it at my local Tullys... it's just as healthy, but considerably less bitter than regular green tea. I don't much like green tea either, but I think this type of green tea is pretty good!

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  Posted by fallscreekroad Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:09am PDT

  Try a different brand. I never liked Green Tea until I started drinking Tazo Zen. It has green tea, lemon verbena, spearmint, lemon grass and "natural flavors" (whatever that means). Anyway, it's tasty.

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  Posted by Jodi L Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:26am PDT

  I mix a bag of Green Tea with a Bag of Berry Zinger or Lemon Zinger in order to mask the Green Tea taste but, keeping it natural

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  Posted by bepe.kafka Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:31am PDT

  We recently discovered that the difference in flavor between loose tea and tea in bags is amazing. When you drink tea that has been brewed from a teabag you are getting the taste of paper and all the bleach and chemicals that are in the paper. The tea by itself is much more neutral tasting, and thus easier to dress up with honey or something else (whole cardamom pods for instance). Try using one of those little glass teapots with a filter right in it. They are really cheap from a Chinese store. Or, get the kind of tea that has whole tea leaves folded up which unfurl in the water into a beautiful flower.

  It was so good, though, that my husband drank so much that he got liver pains. Whether the toxins were from the tea itself or the pesticides used to grow it, or what they were from, we don't know. We are leaving tea alone for a while.

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