White tea: How to make it and how it benefits our health

Dhwani Vora | Updated: May 13, 2020, 11:44 IST
You must have heard of various kinds of teas, but do you know about white tea? White tea is made out of processed leaves of the camellia sinensis plant. The leaves of this tea require a rather minimal processing where they are withered by solar drying or air drying or machine drying. The colour of white tea is pale yellow and the flavour is very mild as compared to black or green tea. There are just so many health benefits of this tea. You must start including this tea in your daily diet in order to pay more attention to your health.

Here's how you make white tea:

You need to make this tea at a low temperature in order to maintain the original flavour. It should be only be done for a minute. If the tea leaves are in compact buds form, you can take one tsp of it to infuse them. If they are only lightweight leaves, you need just half a tsp for infusing.


Health benefits of white tea:

- White tea is very effective for burning fat as it contains a compound that helps in burning down excess fat in our body. It even boosts the metabolism which is very responsible for weight loss.

- The tea comes with fluroide, tannins and catechins, all of which work great to protect our teeth from bacteria, cavities and the effects of sugar.

- White tea contains a polyphenal called catechins which works as an antioxidant property in our body. Plant-based molecule polyphenol protects our body cells from damaging by the free-radicals. It can even reduce the risk of many health issues like weak immune system, inflammation, aging and other chronic diseases.

- White tea benefits us by reducing the risk of cancer. It has been seen in a study that the tea can protect cell damage in different types of lung cancer.

- Since this tea can very much fight free radicals and chronic inflammation, it even has the ability to lower the risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases.

- The catechins present in white tea helps in regulating the factors of reducing the risk of osteoporosis as well. It is a disease that is related to bones when they become hollow and porous. Free radicals and chronic inflammation then play a big role in increasing the risk factions of this disease.
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