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After identification of tea contains about 500 compounds. Some are essential to human nutrition. Like vitamins, proteins, amino acids, lipids category, carbohydrates and minerals and other elements of the human body have a high nutritional value. Some of the human body health and medicinal value of the components. If tea polyphenols, caffeine, such as lipopolysaccharide.
A drinking tea can be added to the human needs of a variety of vitamins
Tea contains various vitamins. According to their solubility can be divided into water-soluble vitamins and fat-soluble vitamins. These water-soluble vitamins (including vitamin B, C), tea through direct absorption by the body. Therefore, the tea is a water-soluble vitamin supplement the good way, the tea can be added regularly to a variety of human vitamin needs.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, can increase human resistance and immunity. Tea with higher levels of vitamin C per 100 grams of green tea contains up to 100 ~ 250 mg, senior Longjing tea in over 360 mg, lemon, citrus and other fruit content higher. Black tea, oolong tea processing as a result of fermentation processes, vitamin C and oxidative damage, the content of each 100 grams of tea left dozens mg, especially black, lower level. Therefore, the higher the grade of tea, its relatively higher nutritional value. Per person per day as long as they drink 10 grams of high-grade green tea, we will be able to meet the human right of vitamin C daily requirements.
Vitamin B of thiamine also known as vitamin B1, B2 also called riboflavin, pantothenic acid also known as B3, B5 also known as nicotinic acid, also called folate B11. As the fat-soluble vitamins difficult to dissolve in water, boiling brew has been difficult to absorb. Therefore, to promote appropriate “Drinking Tea for” to make up for this deficiency, the upcoming tea made superfine powder, add in various foods, such as those containing tea tofu, noodles with tea, with tea cakes, tea containing candy, such as ice cream containing tea. Tea eat these foods, they can get tea contained in the fat-soluble vitamin nutritional ingredients, better play to the nutritional value of tea.
Two, tea human needs can add protein and amino acids
Tea, tea was through direct absorption and utilization of water-soluble protein content of about 2%, the majority of protein for water insoluble material exists within the wreath. Tea types of amino acids, as many as 25 over the isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, valine, are essential to human eight of the six amino acids. There infant growth of histidine. These amino acid content in tea is not high, but can be as human Day inadequate added.
3, tea can add the body needs minerals
Tea contains the human body needs a large number of elements and trace elements. The main element is a lot of phosphorus, calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, etc.; Trace element is iron, manganese, zinc, selenium, copper, iodine and fluorine other. If tea is high in zinc, especially green tea, green tea per gram of zinc amounted to an average of 73 micrograms, high reach 252 micrograms; Black tea per gram of zinc average volume is 32 micrograms. Tea average iron content of green tea per gram content of 123 micrograms per gram of black tea content of 196 micrograms. These elements of human physiological function plays an important role. Regular tea is access to these minerals one of the important channels.
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