Are you drinking more green tea to increase your anti-oxidant intake? Ever heard of white tea? It’s a delicately light tasting tea, sometimes noted by a faint jasmine fragrance. But don’t let the light flavor fool into believing the tea has no substance. White tea packs a heavyweight punch in regards to anti-oxidants.

It turns out that those same super anti-oxidants may help you fight fat. Recent studies suggest that white tea could be a breakthrough for those folks wanting to lose weight.  Here is why:

Because white tea is less processed than green or black tea, it has more of certain active compounds, like epigallocatechin-3-gallate (an antioxidant) and methylxanthines (theobromine and caffeine). And researchers suspect that these compounds influence fat-cell metabolism by acting on the expression of certain genes.

Fat cells increase or decrease in size, according to your weight. And in a lab study, human fat cells treated with white tea extract accumulated significantly less fat. In fact, the white tea extract reduced the incorporation of fat by as much as 70 percent! The tea also seemed to stimulate the breakdown of fat from mature cells.

That is pretty exciting. Once difficult to find and expensive to buy, white tea is becoming more common and some large tea drink makers are bottling the brew.  Watch the calorie count because of excess sweeteners in these brews. No need to undo all the good of the anti-oxidants with too much sugar.

Details found here: http://www.realage.com/ct/eat-smart/food-and-nutrition/tip/8911