Beneficial effects of Japanese Green Tea

The benefits of Green Tea have recently been attracting a lot of attention in Japan. These are some of the beneficial effects that Green Tea is known to have.

Green Tea helps prevent cancer.
Green Tea lowers cholesterol.
Green Tea helps to control high blood pressure.
Green Tea lowers blood sugar levels.
Green Tea slows signs of aging.
Green Tea refreshes the body.
Green Tea helps prevent food poisoning.
Green Tea prevents/fights cavities.
Green Tea strengthens your immune system.

Through extensive research, it is now widely known in Japan that Green Tea has many good effects, however these effects of course are different for every person.

Among the many kinds of Green Tea, "sencha" is the most popular and long acknowledged tea in Japan. Its distinctive flavor comes from the natural growing process; After surviving the long, cold winter, the tea leaves are bathed in sunlight along with the breath of spring while growing on the nourishing ground.

"Sencha" is an unfermented tea made by steaming the leaves before their components are oxidized in order to stop the enzyme reaction that causes fermentation. Unfermented, sencha tea is believed to have more beneficial health effects than black tea or oolong tea because the vitamins and active ingredients, such as Catechins, have not been removed through a fermentation process.