Healthy recipes this time we will be creative using one tea beverages. Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by brewing the leaves from the tea plant with hot water.
Tea leaves obtained from the tea plant (Camellia sinensis). Tea is the most widely drunk beverage in the world second only to water. The drink attracted many people and has a cool flavor, slightly bitter, and Sepat.
Perhaps in the market we know there are different types of tea are sold. Real tea comes from one plant species that the tea plant. Various types of tea is actually derived from the processing of different types.
Generally this type of tea can be divided into 6 types by way of processing, namely white tea (white tea), yellow tea (yellow tea), green tea (green tea), oolong (Wulong) tea (tea master), black tea (black tea ) (also known as red tea in China), and post-fermented tea (post-fermented tea, or known as black tea in China).
Types of tea that are common in the market that is white tea, green tea, hand-picked tea, and black tea, while the traditional hand-picked teas, Pu-erh tea and post-fermented tea is usually used in herbal medicine.
Tea plants originated from East and South Asia region. Tea beverage consumed as a drug began in China in the Shang Dynasty (circa 1766-1122 BC). Although there is a story about the use of tea as a beverage, but no one is sure exactly when tea began to be consumed as a beverage. One of the first historical record of the beverage tea in China was recorded in the 10th century BC.
Other early records concerning the consumption of tea in the 3rd century in a medical record by Hua To. More references to tea found in the record a letter from General Liu Kun at the time of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Tea is a beverage which is commonly found in the Qin Dynasty and later became well-known at the time of the Tang Dynasty (June 18, 618-1 Juni 907) as its spread to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Tea in India is consumed as a medicine in a long time, but the tea is consumed as a beverage began after British introduced tea that comes from China.
It was not wrong to drink tea in ancient times known as a natural remedy, because research-modern scientific research has proven the benefits of tea consumption on human health. A number of phytochemical compounds that could potentially bioactive compounds such as flavonoids, flavanols (catechins), amino acids, vitamins, caffeine and some types of polysaccharides have researched health benefits.
Green tea and black tea have anti-cancer benefits because the content of catechins in it. Catechin compounds in green tea is more effective as an anticancer on the type of cancer associated with obesity such as liver cancer and colon cancer (colorectal). Green tea and black tea both have the benefit of preventing cardiovascular disease.
A number of epidemiological studies is the effect of green tea on cancer incidence in humans has been conducted. This study shows the protective effect of green tea significantly to cancer in oral, pharyngeal, esophageal, prostate, gastrointestinal, urinary tract, pancreas, bladder, skin, lung, colon, breast, and liver as well as lowering the risk for cancer metastasis and recurrence.
The research results contained in the article entitled Tea Polyphenols for Health Promotion is published in the journal Life Sciences No 81 Vol. 7, dated July 26, 2007.
According to Dr. Milton Schiffenbauer who is a researcher of Pace University New York that iced tea or regular tea drinking (sold commercially) can destroy or disable the herpes virus within a few minutes, as well as the T1 viruses (viruses that attack bacteria that may allow the emergence of bacteria that dangerous).
