Green Jasmine Tea – Benefits for Life
Green Jasmine Tea is not a specific tea plant variety, but a blend of jasmine with green teas to produce a resulting subtly sweet and aromatic blend of green tea. Jasmine Tea or jasmine flower tea gets it roots back 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty of China. The jasmine plant was grown in the high mountain elevation of China most notably the Fuijan province which had the reputation of produced the best quality Jasmine Tea.
To create the jasmine tea blend, tea leaves are mixed with blooming jasmine flowers using a natural process. The flowers open and release its natural fragrance into the green tea leaves. The tea leaves absorb the fragrance and flavor of the jasmine blossoms. It can take as long as 4 hours to for this process to be completed. Typically, the higher the grade of jasmine green tea, the more times the process it repeated to get the right amount of aroma and sweetness to the tea blend. The jasmine flowers can be removed or included in the final product.
The jasmine tea can be combined with other kinds of teas including oolong tea, white tea, or even black tea. Mixing jasmine with various teas can provide a great deal of wonderful health benefits. These include powerful antioxidants, weight control, cholesterol control, cancer fighting agents and relaxation of the nervous system.
Antioxitants
We have become increasing aware of the detrimental effects that free radicals have on our bodies. The free radicals are a serious risk to our health and are believed to be the cause of consider number of diseases. Tea is an excellent natural antioxidant. The polyphenol antioxidant in the tea leaves scavenges the free radicals from causing damage to the different cells within the body by detoxifying them. Teas have approximately (10) ten times more polyphenols than that found in fruits and vegetables. Furthermore, black and green tea also contains other antioxidants that fruits and vegatables do no have. These include thearubigins, epicatechins, and catechins, a form of flavonoids.
Weight Control
The natural chemical compounds found in green tea can boost your metabolism by as much as 4%. The effects are most likely from the high concentrations of catechin polyphenols. These help to accelerate the levels of fat oxidation and thermogenesis (rate body burns calories). Expert opinions vary, but the general acknowledgement is that 3- to 5 cups of green tea a day can help burn an extra 70 calories per day. The nice think about green jasmine tea is that the naturally sweet flavor does not require you to add sugar, another plus for weight control.
Cholesterol Control
Most researchers believe that green tea lowers blood cholesterol. It is thought that the lowering benefit comes from reducing blood cholesterol absorption in the digestive tract, while at the same time increasing its rate of excretion. But even more importantly, getting rid of excess cholesterol is green tea’s capabilities to fight the conversion of LDL to its more dangerous, oxidized form. Oxidized LDL gets sticky and tends to cling to the walls of your arteries. This is a major factor in the development of atherosclerosis (plaque buildup in the arteries), and greatly increases the risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Cancer Fight Agents
Many clinical studies and scientists confirm that all varieties of tea have natural elements which might help in preventing cancer. Research seems to indicate that the jasmine tea is the most valuable tea for cancer. Many of the potential benefits that teas have can be attributed to antioxidant activities of tea polyphenols, but the exact mechanism by which teas help fight cancer have not been established.
Relaxation
Green Jasmine tea can help relax the nervous system of the body. The general aroma offered by the jasmine tea can has a comforting calming effect. It can fundamentally decrease the heart rate and has a tranquil effect to the rest of the body systems. One idea would be to do a heavy workout or a stressful activity, and then have a cup of jasmine tea to make you feel rejuvenated.
With all its benefits, jasmine green tea can become a part of your overall health regime. To reap the most benefits from drinking jasmine tea, it is important that you pick only the most premium quality tea leaves and jasmine extracts. When brewed in hot water, to ensure quality, make sure that the tea is a nice gleaming yellowish to green color. This will tells you that the tea has been mixed correctly during processing. And by all means, take pleasure in drinking the green jasmine tea, both privately and socially. Enjoy.
