Green Tea Extract Diet Supplements
Most Important Thing To Know

Let me make a confession. As a loose tea purist, I did find tea extract tablets and capsules hard to swallow. I mean, isn't just a marketing scam? Why bother with tea supplements when you can have your soothing cup of tea?

After many months of research, I had a change of heart. The problem, I think, lies in the tea beverage themselves. If I am honest, there are just too many bad teas around.

If a soothing cup of high grade green tea is hard to come by, why not go for a tea supplement instead? The truth is, a quality tea extract supplement can offer a convenient, affordable and caffeine-free alternative.

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Okay, so let's say you want a tea extract supplement. What ingredient should you be looking for?

Green tea chemical composition is extremely complex. It contains as many as 200 bioactive compounds. It will take scientists a long time to understand how they all work together.

However, over the past 20 years, scientists have discovered that most of its health benefits can be explained by the Big Three:

• Catechins

• Theanine

• Caffeine

Among the three, the most important group of constituents is the catechins, which accounts for 30 to 40 percents of dried tea weight.

The are 4 kinds of catechins. The star of the show, of course, is the powerful antioxidant EGCG.

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So here is the tip: When you read the label next time, look for either catechins or EGCG content.

Fuzzy words like Green Tea Leaf Extract doesn't mean anything as catechins are very active and are easily destroyed.

While the Chinese people have been drinking green tea for the last 2,000 years, green tea extract is a recent invention. How can we be sure that ingesting them will give the same benefits as drinking green tea?

While long term population studies tend to use beverages, short duration laboratory and human trials tend to use tea extract for consistency.

Remember the last time you heard about a newly discovered green tea benefit? Chances are these studies have been performed using green tea extract.

This doesn't mean that green tea pills offer the same level of enjoyment and protection as drinking a cup of tea. But there is no question that a quality product offers a high degree of benefits.

Taking green tea extract pills or capsules can help you lose weight, but only if taken at the right dosage with the right ingredients.

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When taking pills, things can go wrong more easily than drinking tea. This is because your body finds it much harder to tell the good from the bad. And it is easy to overdose.

Always stick with a trusted manufacturer and never exceed the recommended dosage. To be even safer, keep you supplement programme short - say 3 months, and seek medical advice when you have conditions.

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To me, a perfect tea supplement fulfills the following 6 criterions:

• High potency

• Herbicide free

• Caffeine content depending on individual conditions

• Synergistic herbal blend

• Credible manufacturer

• Convenient to take

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Fat burners could be either diet pills or liquid extract. They often incorporate other herbs to facilitate rapid fat loss.

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At first reading, you can't help being impressed.

To quote the manufacturer, Kina®: "Green Tea Complex is the first 100% organic whole food green tea supplement. It is processed from hand-harvested Japanese green tea grown in Nara Prefecture."

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A clear no no as the USDA study found that it contains only 10% of the EGCG found in a cup of regular tea. A low potency beverage.

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