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Consume two cups of tea daily to boost heart and metabolic health
Tea Council of the USA, the FDA released the final rule on the use of “healthy” on food labels, granting tea the opportunity to use this claim. Certain tea products, including tea bags and bottled tea, can now display the “healthy” claim on packaging, provided they contain less than 5 calories per 12 fluid ounce serving.
This exciting recognition underscores tea as a health-promoting beverage. Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world next to water, with scientific research providing robust support for its health benefits. True teas – black, green, oolong, white and dark – all come from the same plant, a warm-weather evergreen named Camellia sinensis. True tea has the highest concentrations of flavan-3-ols of all foods and beverages, making it the go-to source for this powerful plant compound.
Two cups of green or black tea have 400-600 mg of healthy, bioactive flavan-3-ols, which is the recommended daily intake shown to help reduce the risk associated with heart disease and diabetes and improve blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar. Each 8-fluid oz. cup of tea consumed by those over 65 years old was associated with a 10 per cent lower risk of death from heart disease.
These findings are further supported by a 2021 review, which found that a consistent intake of two cups of tea per day has the potential to decrease the risk of heart disease and its progression.