Drink the tea if you must, but Life Extension Greet Tea Extract aboslutely kicks ASSSS!
1 pill
98% polyphenols
300 mg ECGC
Very reasonable price
No other green tea extract comes CLOSE to the potency of Life Extension
best to just boil the leaves. you can get all the stuff here to grow it.
Find a store with the ‘Constant Seasons’ brand, it is a taste you can handle at a decent price.
I read something a couple years ago that rated Lipton and Celestial Seasonings highest in the good stuff (EGCG or whatever it is). I can’t find a cite, unfortunately. But I was shocked that Lipton was in the top two, esp. given the price.
http://www.discountcoffee.com/jackie_chan_tea.htm
This tea tastes great and is convenient as hell. The raspberry is especially good. Each serving has 300 mg of polyphenols.
I’ve been taking a weekly trip to GNC to pick this stuff up!
If you’re buying a bottle of green tea at the grocery or at a convenience store, Honest Tea’s version blows away the competition in terms of ECGC content. This is according to testing by Men’s Health, anyway.
[quote]AGagain wrote:
http://www.discountcoffee.com/jackie_chan_tea.htm
This tea tastes great and is convenient as hell. The raspberry is especially good. Each serving has 300 mg of polyphenols.
I’ve been taking a weekly trip to GNC to pick this stuff up!
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Is that the same stuff as Teatech? I used to get that stuff all the time, one serving is close to about 4 cups of normal green tea. Tasted awesome too.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Good green tea - loose leaf, Dragon Well is a good grade - will cost you around $100 / lb. I pick up maybe $10 (0.1 lb) worth per month, and use the leaves for 2-3 infusions. I drink maybe 4-6 cups a day with lemon juice (Vit C supposedly boosts the anti-oxidant effect of green tea).
Loose leaf tastes WAY better than tea bags. [/quote]
The tea used in tea bags is the trimmings from when they process the whole leaves. Not that it’s bad, just lower quality. If you want to brew your own, go with loose leaf. If you’re too lazy, the Sencha shots are good.
[quote]allenkt wrote:
Stash has a “Green & White Fusion” tea which I hear is good. I’ve never tried it but I’m going to see if I can find it tomorrow.[/quote]
this is what i buy, mainly because i’ve read the white tea has more antioxidants than green. why not get the best of both.
as far as it being better quality than another brand i don’t know… though i doubt lipton is bad. my guess is its probably all the same.
I approve this thread, good stuff.
Someone want to tell me HOW MUCH to drink a day to reap the benefits? I have no clue…
[quote]acelement wrote:
Someone want to tell me HOW MUCH to drink a day to reap the benefits? I have no clue…[/quote]
Here’s a starting point:
http://www.T-Nation.com/article/most_recent/low_carbs_seaweed_and_crack_experimental_biology_2008
Money quote:
Green tea was the most ìpresented onî herb of the bunch. One study showed that only 90 mg of EGCG combined with 100 mg of caffeine lead to a 24% increase in resting energy expenditure (don’t get too excited, as this wasn’t 24% over 24 hours). A study from Harvard also showed that green tea can reduce inflammation at the RNA level by altering cytokine expression. Seriously, if you aren’t drinking green tea every day, you’re just crazy.
Great thread…
The funny thing is I’m smack dab in the middle of a bottle of Lipton Diet Green Tea. My office stocks this and every soft drink known to man in our refrigerator as one of our “perks.”
Other than zero calories, carbs, fat, and sugar, the only info on the label is 72mg of flavonoid antioxidants per serving.
It sure beats Pepsi.
[quote]Laughing Hyena wrote:
acelement wrote:
Someone want to tell me HOW MUCH to drink a day to reap the benefits? I have no clue…
Here’s a starting point:
http://www.T-Nation.com/article/most_recent/low_carbs_seaweed_and_crack_experimental_biology_2008
Money quote:
Green tea was the most ìpresented onî herb of the bunch. One study showed that only 90 mg of EGCG combined with 100 mg of caffeine lead to a 24% increase in resting energy expenditure (don’t get too excited, as this wasn’t 24% over 24 hours). A study from Harvard also showed that green tea can reduce inflammation at the RNA level by altering cytokine expression. Seriously, if you aren’t drinking green tea every day, you’re just crazy.[/quote]
Ok well that doesn’t translate to non-bio talk…how many cups are we talking here? Gimme the straight talk doc!
Hahaha…
Just googling for a second lead me here for EGCG content:
So, if you get good quality green tea, you should be getting enough EGCG in one cup (depending on your definition of enough).
I see that typical estimates of caffeine in green tea vary between 15/20 mg of caffeine:
http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine.htm
A typical cup of coffee has 80 mg.
So, to get that 24% increase mentioned, I’m guessing you could just stack a cup of tea atop a cup of coffee, eh?
Or am I being too simple about it?
I’ll second the Dragon Well/Lung Ching province comment. That stuff is the best leaf of Green Tea around…real buttery flavor. Worked in a tea room in Oxford and this and Chun Me were the standard.
If you want tea that tastes good, brew loose leaf. Places that sell this usually can sell you tiny samples so if you’re not sure what you’ll like just get a few oz.
As for how often…I’ve been making liters of green tea to cart around with me this summer…real easy: load up a filter/teabag with leaves, pour water in and leave it sitting around while you’re busy doing something else so the tea gets pretty strong. Fill a bottle with ice to the very top, dump the tea over it and add excess ice if needed. IMHO this beats the taste of bottled tea hands down.
If you don’t like the taste of green tea mess around with blending your own. Add mint (real mint leaves tastes great!), squeeze a little bit of lemon in there, or try adding in a fruitier loose tea (usually black teas with dried fruit in them).
[quote]Laughing Hyena wrote:
So, to get that 24% increase mentioned, I’m guessing you could just stack a cup of tea atop a cup of coffee, eh?
Or am I being too simple about it?[/quote]
That might not taste very good. Supplemental EGCG (from Green tea extract) and any form of Spike would do the trick.