What is Green Tea Extract?

Jul 17, 2023

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What is Green Tea Extract?

 

Green tea extract is an active ingredient extracted from green tea leaves, mainly including tea polyphenols, caffeine, water, minerals, pigments, carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, vitamins, etc.
 

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About its health care functions

 

  • Hypolipidemic effect: Tea polyphenols are the main components of green tea, which has the effect of restoring and protecting vascular endothelial function. The lipid-lowering effect of tea polyphenols is also one of the main reasons why tea can make obese people lose weight and not rebound.
     
  • Antioxidant effect: tea polyphenols can block the lipid peroxidation process, improve the activity of enzymes in the human body, so as to play an anti-mutation, anti-cancer effect.
     
  • Anti-tumor effect: tea polyphenols can inhibit the synthesis of DNA of tumor cells, inhibit the synthesis rate of tumor cells, and further inhibit the growth and proliferation of tumors.
     
  • Bactericidal detoxification: tea polyphenols can kill botulinum and inhibit the activity of bacterial exotoxins. It has antibacterial effect on various diseases of respiratory tract and skin infection.
     
  • Antialcoholism and liver protection: tea polyphenols can inhibit alcohol-induced liver damage.
     
  • Detoxification effect: serious environmental pollution has obvious toxic effect on human health. Tea polyphenols have strong adsorption effect on heavy metals, which is conducive to reducing the toxic effect of heavy metals on human body. In addition, tea polyphenols also have the effect of improving liver function and diuresis.
     
  • Improve body immunity

 

What's more

 

It can be used for: cosmetics industry and the food industry

1.It has a strong antibacterial effect and inhibition of enzymes, so it can prevent skin diseases, skin allergies.
2.As a kind of natural antioxidant, tea polyphenols have been widely used in food industry.