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Benefits of Black Tea

Benefits of Black Tea

The most widely consumed beverage worldwide after water is tea. In this case we again mention this drink black tea specifically, to highlight its benefits for diabetes, which have been highlighted by a Chinese lab that examined their levels of polysaccharides.

Polysaccharides are a type of carbohydrate that delay the absorption of glucose by the body and which are present in various types of tea. However, researchers in China Tianjin Key Laboratory have compared the levels of polysaccharides in oolong tea, green tea and black tea, the latter finding higher levels of polysaccharides.

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