Japanese Green Tea and its Rise in Popularity

Green tea, hot or iced, is gaining in popularity.

Many city and town shopping malls feature speciality tea shops that serve green tea. Online sites also sell a wide range of green tea both powdered, bottled, and loose-leaf based.

The tea market continues to grow stronger and stronger year after year.

Tea’s purported health benefits—many of which are linked to the heart and blood vessels—may be increasing this trend.

There are also claims that drinking tea can help with weight loss.

Just how might tea help your heart, and how strong is the evidence? And how might a Japanese green tea collection improve your health?

Tea is a good source of compounds known as catechins and epicatechins, which are said to be responsible for tea’s beneficial health effects. These compounds are part of a group of plant chemicals called flavonoids. Studies suggest that flavonoids help quell inflammation, and that in turn may reduce plaque buildup inside arteries. Green tea has slightly higher amounts of these chemicals than black tea. Both black and green teas also contain modest amounts of caffeine, ranging from about 20 to 45 milligrams per 8-ounce cup.

Studies have shown that drinking tea may improve vascular reactivity—a measure of how well your blood vessels respond to physical or emotional stress. There’s also evidence that drinking either black or green tea may lower harmful LDL cholesterol levels. Blood pressure may also dip slightly in people who drink tea, but results from these studies are mixed.

Several large, population-based studies show that people who regularly drink black or green tea may be less likely to have heart attacks and strokes.

Perhaps the best evidence we have is the popularity of tea drinking across the world from China to Japan to India and to Europe and North America and the New World.

Drinking tea is much preferable, health-wise, to soda, alcoholic beverages, or even flavoured water.

Drinking tea has many health benefits, but if you do drink tea, do so in moderation, and not because you’re taking it as a medicine. Remember tea does contain caffeine which is a stimulant, and stimulants should be taken with caution. Also, be cautious of the sugar content in pre-prepared green tea sold in outlets in high street stores and shopping malls.

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