Nine benefits of Anhua dark tea

Because the climate in each region is different, the types of tea they produce are also different. Xuefeng Mountain is a famous mountain in my country. A kind of tea called black tea is produced on this mountain, so this tea is also called Anhua black tea. What makes Anhua black tea different from traditional tea is that it is black in color, and its main raw material is a type of tea called black tea. So what are the nine benefits of Anhua black tea?

1. Supplement dietary nutrition

Anhua dark tea contains rich nutrients, the most important of which are vitamins and minerals, as well as proteins, amino acids, sugars and so on. For residents in the northwest region whose staple food is beef, mutton and cheese and whose diet lacks vegetables and fruits, long-term drinking of Hunan Anhua black tea is an important source of essential minerals and various vitamins for their human body. It is said to be the tea of ​​life.

2. Aid digestion, relieve greasiness, and soothe the stomach

The caffeine, vitamins, amino acids, phospholipids, etc. in Anhua black tea help the human body digest and regulate fat metabolism. The stimulating effect of caffeine can increase the secretion of gastric juice, thereby increasing appetite and aiding digestion. Japanese scholars have proved through scientific tests that Anhua black tea has strong functions of removing greasiness and helping digestion, which is why carnivorous peoples particularly like this kind of tea.

3. Reduce fat, lose weight, soften blood vessels, and prevent cardiovascular diseases

High blood lipid levels will cause lipids to deposit on blood vessel walls, causing atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Anhua dark tea has good effects in degrading fat, anti-coagulation, promoting fibrinogen dissolution and significantly inhibiting platelet aggregation. It can also relax blood vessel walls and increase the effective diameter of blood vessels, thereby inhibiting the formation of atherosclerotic plaques on the inner walls of the aorta and coronary arteries. It can achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure, softening blood vessels, and preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases.

Epidemiological surveys conducted in key Pu'er tea consumption areas such as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Qinghai have shown that long-term drinking of Anhua dark tea has a good regulatory effect on human blood lipids, blood sugar, blood pressure, and vascular sclerosis, and has a good regulatory effect on body weight and body shape.

4. Anti-oxidation, anti-aging, and longevity

The free radical theory of aging holds that under normal physiological conditions, free radicals in the human body are constantly produced and cleared, maintaining a state of equilibrium.

Anhua dark tea not only contains rich antioxidant substances such as catechins, tea pigments, flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, D-carotene, etc., but also contains a large amount of trace elements with antioxidant effects such as zinc, manganese, copper (constituent elements of SOD) and selenium (constituent elements of GSHPX).

The catechins, theaflavins, theanine and tea polysaccharides in Anhua black tea, especially the complex flavonoids in higher content, all have the function of scavenging free radicals, and thus have the effects of anti-oxidation and delaying cell aging.

5. Anti-cancer and anti-mutation

Cancer is one of the diseases that causes the highest mortality rate in the world today. Since the late 1970s, scientists from all over the world have discovered that tea or tea extracts have an inhibitory effect on the occurrence of various cancers. Hunan Agricultural University used high-throughput screening technology, a cutting-edge technology for modern drug screening, to conduct high-throughput screening research on the tumor cell model SGC7901 using Anhua dark tea, proving that Anhua dark tea has a significant inhibitory effect on tumor cells.

6. Lowers blood pressure

It has long been reported that tea can lower blood pressure. Recently, Japan reported that theanine, a unique amino acid in tea, can inhibit the increase of blood pressure by activating dopaminergic neurons. Here, it was also found that caffeine and catechins in tea can relax blood vessel walls, increase the effective diameter of blood vessels, and lower blood pressure through vasodilation.

Lou Fuqing and others in my country found that tea pigments have significant anti-coagulation, promote fibrinolysis, prevent platelet adhesion and aggregation, and inhibit the proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells. They can also significantly reduce triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein in the serum of high-fat animals, increase high-density lipoprotein in serum, and have a significant inhibitory effect on ACE enzyme, having a antihypertensive effect.

7. Improve sugar metabolism, lower blood sugar, and prevent and treat diabetes

The tea polysaccharide complex in Anhua dark tea is the main component for lowering blood sugar. Tea polysaccharide complexes, commonly referred to as tea polysaccharides, are a type of mixture with complex and highly variable components. The results of the determination of tea polysaccharide content in several types of tea show that Anhua dark tea has the highest tea polysaccharide content and its component activity is stronger than that of other types of tea.

This is because in fermented tea, due to the action of glycosidase, protease and hydrolase, relatively shorter sugar chains and peptide chains are formed. Short peptide chains are easier to absorb than long peptide chains and have stronger biological activity. This may be one of the reasons why fermented tea, especially Anhua dark tea polysaccharides, are better than other teas in lowering blood sugar.

8. Sterilization and anti-inflammatory

The main components of Anhua black tea soup color are theaflavins and thearubigins. Studies have shown that theaflavins are not only an effective free radical scavenger and antioxidant, but also have obvious antibacterial effects on Clostridium botulinum, Bacillus enterocolitica, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus capsulatum, and Bacillus cereus. In addition, theaflavins have a certain inhibitory effect on the invasion of influenza virus and the infection of rotavirus and enterovirus.

9. Diuretic and detoxifying, reducing the harm of tobacco and alcohol

The diuretic function of caffeine in Anhua dark tea is achieved by promoting the filtration rate of water in urine through the kidneys. At the same time, caffeine's stimulating effect on the bladder can not only assist in diuresis, but also help sober up and eliminate alcohol toxins.

At the same time, the tea polyphenols in Anhua dark tea can not only precipitate the nicotine in tobacco and excrete it from the body with urine, but also remove free radicals in the smoke and reduce the toxic effects of smoke on the human body. Tea polyphenols have a strong adsorption effect on heavy metal poisons, so drinking more tea can also alleviate the toxic effects of heavy metals.