Originally Posted by kallea
Old thread but i am wondering if green tea extract is better than drinking green tea itself? I’ve read somewhere that green tea extract has better benefits than drinking green tea. Hope someone could shed some light on this..
It could well be that different brewing times “produce” different bioavailable chemicals. If you brew a green tea for an hour it will taste bad but it might have some more good stuff in it.
I know that catechines who are said to be beneficial for ehalth are more when its brewed longer…