So, do you want to have some added benefits by drinking your favorite beverage? Well, if your beverage of choice happens to be tea you are in luck. Green tea happens to be one of the best teas for you. But, how exactly is green tea made? Well, first the leaves of tea are put into alcohol or something along those lines, and then the leaves are set out to have the remaining liquid evaporate. This makes the extract. The extract is what has all of the beneficial parts in it.

So, why exactly should you be drinking green tea? Well, green tea has a lot of one nutrient called photochemical. This is a substance found in nature that is full of anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants help the body defend against anything that may harm the body. The stuff that harms the body is often called free radicals.

These free radicals are really just something that has an electron that is missing its pair. When an electron is missing its pair, it becomes unstable. This causes the electrons to make many fast reactions, called chain reactions, which are not good at all for the body. Anti-oxidant that is in the green tea help making these reactions stops. These Anti-oxidants can also help with headaches, poor digestion, and cholesterol. Also, studies have proven that these anti-oxidants not only help but also make more room for more anti-oxidants.

There is another thing that green tea helps with and that is metabolism. Metabolism is what helps digest the food and use the energy from the food. It also helps in weight loss. Green tea also contains caffeine, which many people may believe is what helps the metabolism speed up. But that is not the case. In fact caffeine usually raises the heart rate. But with green tea it is just the opposite. The green tea does not raise the heart rate but does raise metabolic rate.

Some other benefits that have been discovered is the aid in treating acne, raises the immune system and can fight plaque, and even helps fight cancer.

So, now you are probably thinking that you should go and buy some of this green tea. Well, since there is actually some caffeine you may want to ask your doctor if you should be drinking the tea. But generally the caffeine levels should be fine.

You can usually purchase green tea at about any retail store, or even your local pharmacy.

So, go out and find some green tea and start living healthier.

Baojianmei Jianfei Cha, otherwise known as bojenmi Chinese tea is an increasingly popular tea for weight loss. It has been in use for this purpose for the last 20 years.

In Chinese, the word “bojenmi” means slim, and beautiful. Bojenmi tea is processed and packaged by the Egret River Brand. The parent company of this brand is the Xiamen Export Corporation (XMEHECO). The company is located in Xiamen. Xiamen is an island of the Fujian province.

About Bojenmi Tea

The bojenmi tea is typically made into loose tea and tea bags. There are many different ingredients in bojenmi tea other than the tea leaf, including crataegus, malt, pharbitis, pogostemon, hoelen, citrus chenpi, alisma, cassia, phaseolus, shen-chu, and raphanus. Each of these ingredients and herbs are added to increase digestion of the tea. They are also added to prevent accumulations of phlegm, to prevent food stagnation, and impart a subtle laxative effect. These ingredients have been in use by Chinese doctors to increase weight loss and reduce the level of one’s blood lipids. Other than these additional ingredients the main component of this tea is the leaf itself, coming from a bush in the Fujian province. The tea leaf is sprayed with the additional ingredients during processing, so that when the tea is steeped in water for three to four minutes, they will be extracted along with the tea itself.

The main health benefit of the tea leaf is the drop in one’s blood lipid levels, however, the other additional herbs and ingredients have significant benefit on one’s digestion. It has also been noted that herbs and plants such as the holen mushroom, phaseolus, alisma, citrus peel, and pogotemon impart the benefits of relieving excess fluid in the body.

Cassia and pharbitis will produce a laxative effect. Cassia, crataegus, and alisma also reduce blood lipid levels. Some of the ingredients in bojenmi tea have been shown to increase bowel function, as well as lessening abdominal distention, acid reflux, gurgling, and cramping.

Finding the right dosage

It is recommended that one takes 3 to 6 grams of the tea three times daily. That equates to between 9 and 18 grams a day. One bag of the Egret River brand bojenmi tea contains three grams. What is quite intriguing in fact is that the package states that even without adding the tea to a low calorie diet, one can still lose extra weight with the tea as compared to not drinking the tea at all. They state, however, that the biggest benefits come from combining the tea with a reduced calorie diet. Bojenmi tea tastes a lot like to black tea. It does, however, have a slight bitter taste. Sweeteners can cover most of that bitter flavor if you do not prefer the taste of the tea by itself.

Chinese tea has long been considered an excellent diet aide. Many dieters consider a cup of diet tea standard with every meal. They believe it stimulates metabolism. Tea is low in calories, and is healthy when drunk with no added sugar or other ingredients.

Some expert scientists believe that the caffeine in tea is what increases body functionality and helps to burn extra calories. Tea does contain healthy polyphenols which have been noted as fat-burning substances. For this reason, Chinese teas have widely become known for their weight loss effects.

Although most types of Chinese tea are great for losing weight, two in particular are excellent. These are Pu-erh, and Oolong. These two are probably the best known Chinese teas for weight loss.

Pu-erh Tea

Pu-erh Tea is gaining popularity in Western culture. Green tea has been the most popular tea lately, but pu-erh is quickly gaining on it. The Chinese have long thought of Pu-erh tea as a tea with medicinal properties.

Pu-erh varietals have been known since ancient times. One is even said to be more than 2, 00 years old. Pu-erh comes from a small leaf tea bush. The leaves on this ancient variety are processed in a different manner than one would process green tea. They need to be oxidized, similarly to how the leaves on the oolong bush are processed. The leaves are removed from the bush, and either dried loose or compressed. The leave can be compressed into what is called “bricks, “tea cakes” or “Tuochas”. Tuochas are so named because they look like little birds nests. This can be a sign of beauty for some Chinese tea drinkers. Tea cakes can be aged in dark places such as caves to strengthen their natural earthy flavors.

Pu-erh tea has some benefits that is greatly known for. These are decreasing blood cholesterol and improving the metabolism of fat. This tea can also be “double fermented” in order to enhance some of its special enzymes and microbes. This is done to increase is content of these ingredients known to be essential for one’s well-being.

In addition to these benefits, one cup of Pu-erh tea has been shown to stimulate weight loss when drank with every meal. It stimulates one’s metabolism and aides one’s body systems.

Oolong Tea

Oolong tea is another well-known semi-fermented or oxidized tea. It has a lovely flowery note and intense characteristics. Different varieties of Oolong can range in color from bright to dark. When it is fully-dried, the traditional rich flavors known for weight loss are locked in. This unique drying process will enable the stimulant qualities to come through, which are good for weight loss when added to a well-balanced diet.

Both Pu-erh and Oolong teas are becoming more widely available as they become more well-known for their weight loss qualities. One should be able to find both varieties more and more as they increase in popularity.