5 Best Tea for Weight Loss – Health Benefits of Tea

Would you not start your morning enjoying tea sips even more, if I tell you that the tea you are drinking is beneficial to your body not just in one or two ways, but will also help you lose weight faster and in a healthier way.

Tea is an aromatic beverage consumed all over the world and is only second to water. Tea was originated in China long back and was used for medicinal purposes. There are various flavors of tea grown all over the worlds where some are bitter in taste and contain astringent flavor while some others are sweet and grassy flavors.

Tea has a basic stimulating effect on human body as it contains caffeine. It is made from a plant called Camellia sinensis, which is an evergreen shrub.

I personally love tea, having tea with my besties with never ending chats, oh my gosh, that would make my day. Even when I sit alone and thinking about life with a sip of tea that’s really relaxing.

So, guys here we will talk about different types of tea which are beneficial in weight loss and should be added to your weight loss diet. If you go to supermarkets, you will find lots of varieties of tea, which do come in different price ranges.

I will try to give you a few best and most common tea for weight loss, which you can add to your diet and feel the change while keeping to express your love to tea:

Table of content:

• Green Tea for Weight Loss
• Turmeric Tea for Weight Loss
• Matcha Tea for Weight Loss
• Black Tea for Weight Loss
• Oolong Tea for Weight Loss
• Recommendations

Green Tea for weight loss:

Green tea is well known beverage enjoyed around the world. Green tea is one powerful drink with many benefits including weight loss as one of the top. Now it is so popular that everyone knows about the health benefits of green tea. People have started skipping their milk tea with Green tea. Green tea is extracted from a plant called Camellia sinensis. It contains catechins in abundance and to be precise it is found to be full of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and caffeine, however not as much as the coffee contains. The antioxidant EGCG is responsible for its weight loss properties. Studies have shown that drinking 4 cups of green tea daily can boost your metabolism and support weight loss. So, start adding green tea in your daily life and reduce unwanted weight.

Ingredients:

1. 1 Green tea bag
2. 1 cup water

How to Prepare Green Tea for weight loss:

1. Take a pan and pour 1 cup of water and heat it up, do not boil it, the temperature should be around 80 degree.
2. Now pour the water in to the cup and dip the green tea bag.
3. Leave it for 3 to 4 minutes and let the green tea extract infuse in to the water.
4. Now your green tea is ready to sip.

When to consume:

Since it is calory free you can have 3 to 4 cups of green tea in a day it will help you to lose weight make sure do not consume more the 4 cups.

Note: Excessive intake of green tea may lead to iron deficiency in the body as it has been found to reduce the absorption of iron from food. Also, it should be avoided empty stomach as it may upset your stomach due to presence of polyphenols known as tannins, which increase stomach acid.

Turmeric Tea for weight loss (Indian Yellow Tea):

 As we all know turmeric is great Indian herbs and spices, we use turmeric as spices when we prepare curry or cosmetics for face pack if we want our skin to glow and also while preparing traditional medicines. Turmeric has anti – inflammatory, antioxidant, anti – microbial and thermogenic properties. It is also seen that drinking turmeric tea early in the morning with empty stomach help you burn excess flab. The curcumin in turmeric has been found to prevent fat accumulation in the adipose tissues.

So, start adding turmeric tea in your daily routine and start losing weight.

Ingredients:

1. ½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
2. ½ teaspoon extract ginger juice
3. 1 stick cinnamon stick
4. 1 cup of water

How to Prepare Turmeric for weight loss (Indian Yellow Tea) :

1. Take a pan and pour 1 cup of water and heat it up, boil it and add 1 cinnamon stick let it boil
2. Now add ½ teaspoon ginger juice and make the flam slow and add ½ teaspoon turmeric powder.
3. Now boil it in slow flame for 30 second.
4. Not spot the flam and strain it in your cup.
5. Start enjoying it.

When to consume:

Have it only 2 times a day, 1 drink early in the morning empty stomach and 2^nd drink before bed for better result. Along with this make sure you eat healthy.

Matcha Tea for weight loss:

This is one of the best options to pick from the world of teas for healthy weight loss. This basically works as a fat blocker because of the presence of several antioxidants that boost metabolism and help burning calories. Macha tea is rich in fiber, vitamins (C), selenium, chromium, zinc and magnesium.

It contains epigallocatechin gallate, which is the same compound that is found in green tea and works for weight loss in same mechanism.

So, this should be the right time to include Macha tea in your regular diet in order to make your journey to weight loss easier and healthier.

Ingredients:

1. Matcha tea power
2. 1 cup of water

How to Prepare Matcha Tea for weight loss:

1. Take 1-2 tsp of Matcha tea powder in a cup
2. Now pour how water in to a cup, for better result use water just under a boil.
3. Now mix it well and enjoy you Matcha tea

When to consume

You should have only 1-2 cup of Matcha tea per day. It is very safe if you drink 1-2 cup a day, more then 2 cup a day can cause headache, insomnia, irritability, diarrhea, and heartburn due to it’s caffeine content.

Black tea for weight loss:

Black tea is prepared from the aged leaves of ‘Camellia sinesis’plant. Tea has many health benefits and is used in many different medicines and supplements. We usually consume tea un form of hot beverage. Below are some health benefits of black tea:

• Increases energy and focus, which is mostly because of the caffeine content.
• Full of antioxidants which can help reduce the free radicals in the body and prevent the oxidative stress. The free radicals can cause damage to cells and have been linked to some of serious illness including cancer and neurological diseases.
• Some of the studies have shown that the regular consumption of black tea may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disorders by regulation of cholesterol and immunity boost.

Black tea works on weight loss with a slightly different mechanism from the green tea. However black tea is also found to be rich in catechins like green tea with some added benefits as below:

• Black tea contains flavonoids, which may prevent the inflammation induced obesity, lower the triglycerides and visceral fats.
• Tea is a very low-calorie beverage or you may even say it negligible as a cup of tea only contains two calories with no fat and cholesterol. So it will always be best to sip your cup of black tea with no added sugar as sugar, milk etc. add to the calories in your tea.

Ingredients:

1. 1 tsp Black tea
2. 1 cup of water

How to Prepare Black tea for weight loss:

1. Take a pan and pour 1 cup of water and boil it.
2. Bring the water to boil and add 1tsp black tea.
3. Let it boil for few seconds and switch off the flame.
4. Now filter the tea and your tea is ready to sip.

When to consume

Drink 2 to 3 cup of black tea in a day.

Note: You should definitely include black tea in your weight loss diet but be aware that it contains high caffeine content as compared to green tea which may lead to dehydration. Also, it contains tannins in higher concentration. Tannins are not harmful as long as they are consumed in moderate quantities else, they may give you an upset stomach.

Oolong tea for weight loss:

Oolong tea comes from the same tea family and contains catechins as green tea and black tea. This is different from the other teas of the family based on the preparation methods. It lies somewhere between green tea and black tea as it moderately oxidized as compared to black tea which is highly oxidized. This is moderate in color and taste as well.

This can help in weight-loss as it is rich in antioxidants and various minerals like calcium, selenium, potassium, manganese, copper, various vitamins and carotene. There have been several studies conducted and published about the benefits of oolong tea on weight loss in China and Japan. This tea is supposed to contain a good proportion of catechins and caffeine resulting in good effects as compared to others which may be higher in one and lower in other component.

I have started to include the oolong tea in my weight loss diet and hope you guys are also going to do so after knowing these benefits.

Ingredients:

1. 1-2 tsp Oolong tea
2. 1 cup of water

How to Prepare Oolong Tea for weight loss:

1. Bring one cup of water to a boil
2. Once the water boil removes from the flame and let the water cool down for 1-2 minutes
3. Add 1-2 tsp of oolong tea to a cup and pour water in to it and mix well
4. Cover and steep for 2-3 minutes
5. Strain it now it is ready to drink

When to consume:

You can have it with breakfast or in a evening time, make sure you have it for two times a day not more than that.

So, these are some of the best tea for weight loss, try these out at your home and share your thoughts in comments below. One more thing i would like to add is, when you start adding these tea in your routine for weight loss , follow it for a month, give a break for a week and again follow it for a month and so on. Reason behind this is that monotonous routines will not give you best possible results instead a break and back to routine is said to give better results.

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