Is green tea healthy or unhealthy?

Is this green tea just as healthy as the green tea from Japan? Read?

• Hi so I saw someone ask a question saying if green tea bags from the grocery stores are just as effective with nutrition benefits for weight loss skin and other stuff that green tea helps you with if there just as good from the ones from Japan and China? But the green tea bag that I have is lipton tea Green Tea it says Pure Green Tea Naturally contains tea Flavonoids on the fron box and the nutrion says theres 0 calories 0 sugar 0fat basically 0 everything and on the back it says its from the rainforest alliance certified with a little frog on it. So I was wondering is this tea just as effective in weightloss and other nutriens people say its good for as the green tea from japan and china? If not why? Of course I excercise and eat healthy.

• Answer:

  Honestly, there is not much evidence that Japanese green tea is healthier than other types of tea, including Chinese green tea, oolong teas, or even black teas. The main reason that there's a lot of health info on Japanese teas is that Japan happens to be the wealthiest, most scientifically advanced country that also grows tea, so it puts a ton of money into tea research. The little research that's been done on other types of tea has found it to also be healthy. I wrote an article about this some time ago: http://ratetea.net/topic/health-benefits-of-tea/8/ My one piece of advice though...please buy good-quality tea, and loose-leaf tea if you can get your hands on it. You can buy loose tea online very easily, for a very reasonable price. Do not buy from a company hyping up the health benefits of tea. Yes, tea is healthy, yes, science has backed some (not all) of the claims about how good tea is for you. But in the end it's still mainly a drink, not a medicine. The companies selling tea as a health product usually sell low-quality tea at jacked up prices. Buy from a legitimate tea company that focuses on flavor and clearly identifies the variety of tea you are buying, how it tastes, and where it comes from. Not only will you enjoy your tea more but you will find a better price too. I run a tea rating website, http://ratetea.net that allows users to share their own ratings and reviews of tea and tea companies. My personal favorite company to order from is Upton Tea Imports. But there are so many good ones. The stuff at the supermarket may be okay but you'll open up a whole new world when you start buying loose-leaf tea. You may also save some money! Good luck and enjoy! Hi so I saw someone ask a question saying if green tea bags from the grocery stores are just as effective with nutrition benefits for weight loss skin and other stuff that green tea helps you with if there just as good from the ones from Japan and China? But the green tea bag that I have is lipton tea Green Tea it says Pure Green Tea Naturally contains tea Flavonoids on the fron box and the nutrion says theres 0 calories 0 sugar 0fat basically 0 everything and on the back it says its from the rainforest alliance certified with a little frog on it. So I was wondering is this tea just as effective in weightloss and other nutriens people say its good for as the green tea from japan and china? If not why? Of course I excercise and eat healthy.