Green tea as good as its hyped up to be?

[Woplock]

Just curious with everyones experience with it, and if its actually as good as everyone says. Ive been drinking it with my cutting diet as of last week(with no sugar or milk obviously) and i still cant really stand the taste. I just wanna make sure im enduring hell for something good in the long run

[neutral]

they sell capsules if you don't like the taste...

[jcosley]

I take the capsules now just cuz its easier then doing the whole tea bag in the water thing. Plus I only really like to drink water and nothing else.

[nolefan]

Originally Posted by neutral

they sell capsules if you don't like the taste...

how many pill should one take per day

[tosca]

Originally Posted by nolefan

how many pill should one take per day

2 - 3

[top_5_percent]

I am such a fan of green tea. I literally never ever EVER get sick. I drink about 5 - 6 cups a day. When I first started drinking it I used to have to block my nose and scull it lol but now I actually enjoy it. It also gives me a bit of a caffeine hit which is good.

Green tea is good for pretty much everything. I really think its like a wonder food.

[HeavyDB]

I also couldn't stand the taste of Green Tea when I first started drinking it and actually left it alone for awhile. When I came back to it after the break I actually enjoyed the taste... kind of weird but I guess it's an acquired taste for some of us.

If at the end of the day you still can't stand it don't torture yourself by drinking it... it isn't worth that much. However, something you may want to try is White Tea. White Tea is actually where Green Tea comes from and many believe it's health benefits to be even greater than those of Green Tea. I alterante between the two just to mix it up and the White Tea is similar tasteing but much milder and almost certainly the better choice if you can't stomach the taste of Green Tea. Try it out.

[kingofdanger]

Originally Posted by nolefan

how many pill should one take per day

It depends on how much EGCG is in a pill. It is recommended to get 300-500mg of it a day. My pills have 326.25mg, so I take 2. I think many others have less, so you must adjust the dosage accordingly.

[iateadonut]

I live in China. The green tea we drink here comes from the mountains a few miles away.

Green tea is so great. It comes in whole leaves. And the cups are like a cup inside a cup, and the cup inside has holes in it. So you just put in the tea leaves for a few minutes and take the cup with holes out of the regular coffee mug.

Good tea is whole leaves. They select the best tea and sell it for a premium. Then the grade down and down, hand selecting the best ones.

When they're finished, they have crappy dusty stuff leftover. This, they package in inconvenient little bags, staple, just shrink wrap and export. That's why you hate tea - it's like if you took the absolute worst coffee beans you could find and then ground them up and made yourself some coffee (like they do here in China, I guess - everyone drinks that nescafe crap.)

Anyway, it's a taste worth acquiring. If you had the correct kind of cup and some good green tea and knew how to brew it, you'd probably really like it. Plus, you can make it as strong as you want. so, you could just drink cup but use 6x the leaves.

I used to sell tea on the Internet - I seem to recall that generation tea was a competitor that seemed to do well. You could also send me $50 and I could probably send you a few kg with that, plus one of those cups.

[Skidmarx]

You'd be surprised at how different green tea tastes from each brand. I have a serving in the morning and a serving in the afternoon. My fav so far is Stash, Premium Green Tea. I also put in a bag of mint tea(i forget mfr) and it makes it much more tolerable.

When I get tired of bottled water during the day, I drink Lipton Diet White Tea w/raspberry(30 cals/bottle).

[in10city]

Originally Posted by Woplock

Just curious with everyones experience with it, and if its actually as good as everyone says. Ive been drinking it with my cutting diet as of last week(with no sugar or milk obviously) and i still cant really stand the taste. I just wanna make sure im enduring hell for something good in the long run

You're suffering needlessly as a cup only has 100-200mg of EGCG so you'll need to drink 5-10 cups per day to get anywhere near an efficacious amount.

Buy a green tea extract product if you want to use it - PrimaForce, NOW, and Garden of Life all make good ones.

[hhicks00]

if you drink a green tea drink, such as diet lipton green tea (no sugar) from the bottle, will you still get a positive effect from it?

[in10city]

Originally Posted by hhicks00

if you drink a green tea drink, such as diet lipton green tea (no sugar) from the bottle, will you still get a positive effect from it?

Highly doubtful. As I mentiond above, even with real green tea, you need to drink quite a bit of it.

Let me put this into perspective for you...

There are 72 mg. of Flavonoid Antioxidants per 8 oz. of the Diet Green Tea.
There are 190 mg. of Flavonoid Antioxidants per 1 of their tea bags.

A little tea bag contains almost 3 times as much.

Obviously the more you drink, the more Flavonoid Antioxidants you get, but at the same time the more superfluous crap you consume too

[rainieravesouth]

Originally Posted by in10city

Highly doubtful. As I mentiond above, even with real green tea, you need to drink quite a bit of it.

Let me put this into perspective for you...

There are 72 mg. of Flavonoid Antioxidants per 8 oz. of the Diet Green Tea.
There are 190 mg. of Flavonoid Antioxidants per 1 of their tea bags.

A little tea bag contains almost 3 times as much.

Obviously the more you drink, the more Flavonoid Antioxidants you get, but at the same time the more superfluous crap you consume too

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its not really crap since it adds to your water intake and you're also getting EGCG/antioxidants right? =)

[in10city]

Originally Posted by rainieravesouth

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its not really crap since it adds to your water intake and you're also getting EGCG/antioxidants right? =)

Besides being fluid, the diet drink is peanuts. It's like eating spinach and declaring that you're getting the benefits of its glutamine content... sure it's there, theraputic dose it is not

[jcosley]

Originally Posted by hhicks00

if you drink a green tea drink, such as diet lipton green tea (no sugar) from the bottle, will you still get a positive effect from it?

If you wanna get any benefits from drinking it...i would suggest going with the bags. Why do you think that company makes DIET in the first place? Cuz they add a bunch of junk and sugar to it. A regular tea bag in water wouldnt have sugar or anything else in it.

[in10city]

Originally Posted by jcosley

If you wanna get any benefits from drinking it...i would suggest going with the bags. Why do you think that company makes DIET in the first place? Cuz they add a bunch of junk and sugar to it. A regular tea bag in water wouldnt have sugar or anything else in it.

A bunch of junk, maybe. Sugar, no.

Diet Lipton Green Tea
0 Calories
Ingredients:
Water, Citric Acid, Green Tea, natural flavors, etc

[Woplock]

Originally Posted by in10city

You're suffering needlessly as a cup only has 100-200mg of EGCG so you'll need to drink 5-10 cups per day to get anywhere near an efficacious amount.

Buy a green tea extract product if you want to use it - PrimaForce, NOW, and Garden of Life all make good ones.

Can anyone back this up or have reliable sources?

As for pills, im rather sketch about taking more pills. Im already doing EC stacks, and i dont even bother with omega/flax oil pills right now because i dont wanna put too much pressure on my kidneys. Id rather just do it the right way instead of always having to turn to pills to correct something. I've always kinda seen that as half assed.

[in10city]

Originally Posted by Woplock

Can anyone back this up or have reliable sources?

As for pills, im rather sketch about taking more pills. Im already doing EC stacks, and i dont even bother with omega/flax oil pills right now because i dont wanna put too much pressure on my kidneys. Id rather just do it the right way instead of always having to turn to pills to correct something. I've always kinda seen that as half assed.

Info contained within:
Green tea and its polyphenolic catechins: medicinal uses in cancer and noncancer applications.
Life Sciences, Volume 78, Issue 18, 27 March 2006, Pages 2073-2080
Nurulain T. Zaveri