Green Tea As a Smart and Natural Choice for Being Fit and Healthy

by Jonson Jone

Green tea is a superb health drink with a number of potential good health effects. It has a rich flavor along with many vital constituents that keeps the body healthy and fights against several diseases.

It certainly goes without saying that green tea is the most beneficial of all the tea varieties. Anyone who is concerned about his or her health must drink it every day, not just one time, but about three to four times to stay fit. Let’s know something more about this health drink.

Green tea and black tea are the two most popular tea types. Even though they are picked up from the same tea bush, but these two are extremely different from one another. In case of green tea, two young leaves and one bud, which is on the top of the bush is taken. After this, the tea leaves are prepared in a different method from the black tea as they are not fermented and withered. For this reason, green tea offers more health benefits as compared to black tea. In addition to being a relishing drink, it is composed of many useful antioxidants, micro-elements and vitamins. Drinking this beverage keeps your body away from and helps in fighting cancer, heart diseases and other diseases. In case you are conscious of your overweight and want to get it under control through the natural way, then this drink is a smart choice. Moreover, by drinking it, you are able to reduce the ill-effects caused due to smoking if you have the bad habit of smoking. In addition, it also improves the body metabolism and if you start drinking this drink supplied by many tea suppliers in India, on a daily basis, you will not feel sudden painful hunger pangs.

Let us know how to make green tea. The ingredients required for preparing this beverage are green tea leaves and hot water. First of all you must find out how many cups you want to make. As an approximation, one teaspoon, that is about 5 gram of tea leaves are used with one cup of water in order to get a cup of brewed tea. Apportion the required amount of tea leaves and put them in the sieve or strainer. Fill up a pan with water and heat is on gas but make sure that it does not boil. Set the filled sieve or strainer into an empty cup. Empty the hot water into the cup, over the tea leaves. Soak the tea leaves for only 2 to 3 minutes but not more or else the tea will taste bitter. After that, remove the sieve or strainer from the cup. Let the drink cool down a little and then enjoy drinking the perfect magic cup of healthy green tea.

About the Author

Author of this article is a manager in one of the leading firm of tea exporter India providing many varieties of teas.