Do green tea supplements provide the same health benefits as tea?
We still don’t have a definitive answer on this one. While the label says you’re getting 10 times (or more) the polyphenols in a cup of tea, the FDA has very loose policies regarding supplement labels. And even if packaging rules were more stringent, we don’t yet know exactly what happens when you extract something from the tea leaf — so, until further research is available, the true effectiveness of supplements remains a mystery. “No one knows if green tea supplements have the same health benefits as drinking tea itself,” says Simrany. “Most scientists recommend consuming whole foods over supplements because of the possibility that other components within the foods are causing the positive outcome.” But if you want to try green tea extracts anyway, the perfect one is from a little company in California called Sencha Naturals. They produce mints that are real green tea extracts — three mints have the equivalent of one cup of actual green tea. ( www.senchanaturals.com) Does tea help y
