About Green Tea

The information below highlights some of the scientific evidence supporting the use of ingredients found in our Acai Pure Brazillian Superfruit as a high potency, whole foods-based supplement. These natural substances have been synergistically combined to help provide key phytonutrients from fruits, berries and other healthpromoting plants. The following material is for educational purposes only and is not to be construed as making any claim for the product or for the amount of any ingredient used. We hope you enjoy the information presented, along with the cited studies, to increase your knowledge of these natural substances.

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What is Green Tea?

Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world today, second only to water, and its medicinal properties have been widely explored. The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is a member of the Theaceae family, and black, oolong, and green tea are produced from its leaves. It is an evergreen shrub or tree and can grow to heights of 30 feet, but is usually pruned to 2-5 feet for cultivation. The leaves are dark green, alternate and oval, with serrated edges, and the blossoms are white, fragrant, and appear in clusters or singly. Unlike black and oolong tea, green tea production does not involve oxidation of young tea leaves. Green tea is produced from steaming fresh leaves at high temperatures, thereby inactivating the oxidizing enzymes and leaving the polyphenol content intact. The polyphenols found in tea are more commonly known as flavanols or catechins and comprise 30-40 percent of the extractable solids of dried green tea leaves. The main catechins in green tea are epicatechin, epicatechin-3- gallate, epigallocatechin, and epigallocatechin-3- gallate (EGCG), with the latter being the highest in concentration. Green tea polyphenols have demonstrated significant antioxidant, anticarcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, thermogenic, probiotic, and antimicrobial properties in numerous human, animal, and in vitro studies.

Antioxidant Applications

Many chronic disease states and inflammatory conditions are a result of oxidative stress and subsequent generation of free radicals. Some of these include heart disease (resulting from LDL oxidation),renal disease and failure, several types of cancer, skin exposure damage caused by ultraviolet (Aand B) rays, as well as diseases associated with aging. Green tea polyphenols are potent free radicalscavengers due to the hydroxyl groups in their chemical structure. The hydroxyl groups can formcomplexes with free radicals and neutralize them, preventing the progression of the disease process.

Obesity/Weight Control

Recent studies on green tea’s thermogenic properties have demonstrated a synergistic interaction between caffeine and catechin polyphenols that appears to prolong sympathetic stimulation of thermogenesis. A human study of green tea extract containing 90 mg EGCG taken three times daily concluded that men taking the extract burned 266 more calories per day than did those in the placebo group and that green tea extract’s thermogenic effects may play a role in controlling obesity. Green tea polyphenols have also beeen shown to markedly inhibit digestive lipases in vitro, resulting in decreased lipolysis of triglycerides, which may translate to reduced fat digestion in humans.