JAKARTA, HARIANHALUAN.COM – Time error drinking tea can reduce nutrients and even make tea so unhealthy. The mistake is simple and often made by us who like tea.
“Actually, tea has antioxidant compounds that can detoxify toxins in the body,” said the Head of the Tropical Biopharmaceutical Study Center LPPM IPB Irmanida Batubara. Antioxidants are also good for digestive health, maintaining normal blood sugar to natural anti-aging.
“There are so many benefits of tea because of its antioxidant content. It can detoxify toxins, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, prevent aging, and maintain weight,” said Irma in an online discussion, quoted from CNBC Indonesia, Sunday (30/5/2021) .
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Unfortunately there are a number of mistakes that will make the properties of tea be lost. Here are five mistakes that make tea unhealthy again:
1. Drink After Eating
If you often drink tea after meals should be stopped. It is recommended to take it one hour before meals. This is because tea can detoxify toxins or preservatives in food. Drinking tea after eating can disrupt the absorption of nutrients in the body.
Absorption of iron and protein in food can also be hampered because of the presence of phytic acid.
“Actually, what is worried about drinking tea after eating is that the phytric acid content inhibits the absorption of nutrients, but still nutrients are absorbed, only hampered,” said Irma.
2. Tea Bags Soaked Too Long
If drinking tea bags, be reminded not to soak the tea bags for too long. If done for more than three minutes, it makes the tea toxic and nutrients are lost.
Particles in tea bags can fall and dissolve in the drink you drink, says Cub Above Tea.
While Halodoc mentions soaking tea bags for too long can cause them to become thick and spoil the taste. The strong tea can interfere with the work of the kidneys.
3. Water is too hot
You need to know the type of tea used requires what kind of water temperature. Because, it can affect the taste of tea and some of them require different temperatures.
If it is too hot, the tea will become bitter. While it is not hot enough, the tea leaves are not extracted properly, making the nutrients imperfect.
Black tea which is usually found in Indonesia requires a water temperature of 90 degrees Celsius to be fully extracted. While the temperature of 70-80 degrees Celsius is needed by green tea.
4. Soaked Tea Leaves in a Teapot
This mistake is often made by making the tea leaves submerged in the teapot without using a filter. Remember to strain the leaves before brewing.
If the tea leaves are left soaked, then the taste of the tea will change to be more concentrated and bitter. Then make you will add tea companions such as milk, sugar or creamer so that it does not feel bitter anymore.
5. Added Too Much Sugar
Sweet tea is indeed a favorite of some people, but this artificial sweetener makes it the same as other packaged drinks.
Launching Eat This, Not That!, adding sugar to tea makes the drink unhealthy and will be worse if previously consumed foods with a lot of sugar content.
If drinking tea for diet, adding cream or milk is also not good because both will add calories to the drink. Then what is the healthiest? namely drinking fresh tea, without any sugar and creamer.
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