Add milk in a cup of tea, is it bad?
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Iam not person who drink tea regularly. I noticed that people add milk in their cup of tea. They said without milk, drinking tea is just too strong. Tea with milk make the taste much better. Until i found that drinking tea should not be added by milk. That`s lifestyle advised by researcher based on small lab study. It may lower its health-protective properties. But what we concern here and what they research is black tea, not green tea or others.As we know, tea has ability to protect against heart disease. The western habit always mixing milk with a cup of tea. In UK, 98% of tea-drinkers prefer milk in their favorite cuppa.
The research is just small research, anyway. The researchers tested the effects of tea in 16 humans and on rat tissue. They found that molecules in the tea, catechins helped dilate the blood vessels by producing a chemical named nitric oxide. The caseins in milk prevented this effect by reducing the concentration of catechins in the tea.
However it seems difficult to say from that small study about the impact of adding a drop of milk into cup of tea can make. said June Davison, cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation (BHF). “as such studies were very difficult to carry out he was not surprised that this study had been very small”, added Professor Andrew Steptoe of UCL’s department of epidemiology and public health, who has previously carried out research into the effects of tea on recovery from stress. Regard with the results of the study, he said “We would be interested to know if that sort of effect persists long-term or if it is just an acute effect of tea.”
Erik von elm from German Cochrane Centre said that “this story has not helped the case of public health. As long as the reported results are not confirmed in a fair number of humans who drink their tea outside the lab setting, we will continue to add milk to ours”. Another xpert spoke, Catherine Collins, a dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Society. She agreed that tea was a “very healthy drink” and pointed out that drinking it with milk in would boost calcium intake. “There are benefits for tea, with or without milk, so keep on drinking,” She said.
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Reading:
Milk in tea ‘blocks health gains’
Tea without milk: lifestyle advice based on a small lab study
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