Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Which one is better: Black tea or milk tea?




Which one is better: Black tea or milk tea?

How much tea do you drink? It is easy to say that you drink tea not for heakth reasons but just for fun. Nearly 25 crore people in the world drink tea. Among which many can not live with out tea and those who have to drink tea or coffee frequently.

Majority of Nepali people like milk tea over black tea. But scientists say that a drop of milk in tea can decrease the benefits to zero. How does it happen?


What is in tea?Many drink tea for fun or for warmth. And black tea has a lot of benefits on health. In ancient times tea was used as a medicine in China, India, Nepal and other Asian countries.
Tea has many components which affect our health. And in black tea there is huge amount of antioxidant and vitamins. It improves the immune system, controls the level of sugar in blood, prevent diabetes and protects from heart diseases.
Thus, a drop of milk can eliminate all the benefits and rather is harmful for health. But how?


How does milk affect tea?American scientists did a research to find out how milk affects tea. They tested the effects of tea on 16 health servers. The researchers gave them hot water in a day, black tea on the other day and milk tea in the next. And also studies the condition of their hearts at the same time.
The results were shocking. When they drank hot water there was not much changes seen in the heart. Black tea provided relief to the pace and blood flow of the heart and heart was having trouble with pace and blood flow when milk tea was consumed.

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