Beneficial Effects of Green Tea—A Review

By C. Cabrera, R. Artacho, R. Giménez. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2006

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A Review of the Antioxidant Mechanisms of Polyphenol Compounds Related to Iron Binding (2009, background): “Polyphenols are found in green [2, 3] and black teas [4, 5], coffee [6], fruits [7, 8], fruit juices [9–11], vegetables [12, 13], olive oil [14, 15], red and white wines [16, 17], and chocolate [18], and are found in medium to high milligram quantities per serving for all of these foods (Figs.”
Cancer Chemoprevention Through Dietary Antioxidants: Progress and Promise (2008, positive): “…inhibition of the redox-sensitive transcription factors, inhibition of pro-oxidant enzymes, such as inducible nitric oxide synthase, lipoxygenases, cy-clooxygenases, and xanthine oxidase, and induction of antioxidant enzymes, such as glutathione-S-transferases and superoxide dismutases (46).”
Beneficial effects of green tea: A literature review (2010, background): “Among all of these, however, the most significant effects on human health have been observed with the consumption of green tea [17].”
The total antioxidant content of more than 3100 foods, beverages, spices, herbs and supplements used worldwide (2010, background): “from intake of nuts [49,69], pomegranates [71-73], tomatoes [6], coffee [74], tea [54,75,76], red wine [77-79] and cocoa [56].”