What are benefits and harms of drinking black tea?

Question

when, how, why black tea should be consumed?

Answer 1

Tea is an inexpensive, and next to water, the most widely-consumed beverage worldwide. Modern science, especially of the last fifteen years, is beginning to confirm that tea has health-promoting potential, a concept advocated by Asian traditional for centuries. In fact, the medicinal value of tea has been recognized for a long time in as much as tea was used as an elixir by ancient Chinese. When tea was introduced to Europe, people of Holland considered it a divine herb, a panacea.

Tea is derived from the plant Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub of the theaceae family. The tea plant Camelia sinensis was originated in Southeast Asia and is presently cultivated in over 30 countries around the world. Of the total tea produced and consumed in the world, 78% is black tea, 2% is oolong tea. Black tea is mainly consumed in western countries and some Asian countries including India. Green tea is consumed mainly in Chine, Japan, India, and a few countries in North Africa and Middle East. Oolong tea production and consumption is confined to southeastern China and Taiwan. Both green and black teas contain main polyphenolic antiooxidants. Polyphenols, in chemical term, are members of the flavonoid family. They are catechins made of several ring-like structures.

Each of these structures has chemicals attached to it called phenol groups, hence the name polyphenols (poly means "many"). Antioxidants are the chemicals endowed with the ability to counteract the adverse effects of oxidants by scavenging them or by interfering with their production. The oxidant species are constantly produced within the living system and are responsible for many diseases. By trapping these oxidant radicals, the antioxidants reduce their effective bio-availability. This represents a highly efficient built-in preventive machinery within a living cell. The water-extract of the dry tea leaves, as is consumed by humans, contains many compounds including a mixture of polyphenols. Green tea contains flavanols, flavandiols, flavonoids, and phenolic acids, which are antioxidant in nature. These compounds account for up to 30% of the dry weight of green tea leaves. Most of the polyphenols present in green tea are flavanols, commonly known as catechins.

Answer 2

Black tea is ok occasionally but you do need milk for calcium. If you don't want milk in tea then you must try to take milk in some other form. Also, tea has a certain amount of caffeine in it, too much is not good for you. Do put about 3 sugars in it, not just to sweeten the taste but to ensure that if you are not getting calcium then you are at least getting energy. Why not have the tea the way I do, with just a small amount of milk only, nice and strong and sweet then you are getting benefits all round

Answer 3

I do not think there are any harms to black tea. The only one that comes to mind is if you drink to much, caffeine will take over. Benefits is it is used to help with cancer and stress

Answer 4

Regularly drinking black tea may also lower your risk for these conditions:
1. Diabetes
2. High cholesterol
3. Kidney stones
4. Parkinson’s disease
Early evidence hints that long-term use of black tea may also help protect against:
Osteoporosis
Lung cancer

Answer 5

I just read that black tea can help with the skin condition porosis...not sure what it does but I have been drinking it for awhile now and have actually seen an improvement in mine.

Answer 6

There are many advantages of drinking black tea since it is beneficial to health being antioxidant to keep serious diseases like cancer away.It has no harmful or toxic ingradients like other drinks.It is observed who consume black tea are better protected
against cancer.

Answer 7

Benefit : we can save milk.
Harm : we can be suffered from milk deficiency syndrome.

Answer 8

i never heard it harm anyone.its got a lot of benifits.i read it in an article.........
just cant recall what it was!

Answer 9

eww, yellow teeth!