It is now acknowledged that certain foods may affect mood and behavior. Recently, the food industry has seen a rise in foods containing beverages such as green tea cake, ice-cream, coffee biscuits as per the traditional chocolate as a food and cocoa beverage. Green tea has been suggested to exert numerous health properties, including anxiolytic properties (Vignes et. al. 2006), as does cocoa (i...

Intentional contamination of beverages with microbes is one type of bioterrorist threat. While bacteria and fungus can be easily collected by a centrifuge, viruses are difficult to collect from virus-contaminated beverages. In this study, we demonstrated that Viro-Adembeads, a rapid-capture system for viruses using anionic polymer-coated magnetic beads, collected viruses from beverages contamin...

Chemoprevention is a relatively novel and promising approach for controlling cancer that uses specific natural products or synthetic agents to suppress, reverse, or prevent premalignancy before transformation into invasive cancer. Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) represents a large, worldwide health burden with approximately 274,000 cases diagnosed annually worldwide. Smoking and alc...

Tea (Camellia sinensis) is a widely consumed beverage and recognised for its potential enhancing effect on human health due to its rich polyphenol content. While a number of studies have investigated the quantity and type of polyphenols present in different tea samples, no study has reported the potential effect of digestive enzymes on the availability of tea polyphenols for human absorption or...

Green tea is a widely consumed beverage renowned for its numerous positive health effects. However, it crucial to be cognizant of certain considerations, as excessive consumption can result in adverse outcomes. offers benefits; however, considerations should taken into account. Therefore, essential individuals tailor their green based on specific status and requirements.

OBJECTIVE To test whether consumption of a beverage containing active ingredients will increase 24-hour energy metabolism in healthy, young, lean individuals. RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURES Thirty-one male and female subjects consumed 3 x 250-mL servings of a beverage containing green tea catechins, caffeine, and calcium for 3 days in a single-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-o...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by postprandial hyperglycemia, which is an early defect of T2DM and thus a primary target for anti-diabetic drugs. A therapeutic approach is to inhibit intestinal α-glucosidase, the key enzyme for dietary carbohydrate digestion, resulting in delayed rate of glucose absorption. Although tea extracts have been reported to have ...

background tea (camellia sinensis) has been utilised, since time immemorial, as a beverage possessing encouraging health benefits. little scientific evidence exists in literature on the effect of this plant on pain. objectives to investigate the antinociceptive activity of iranian green tea extract. materials and methods the hydroalcoholic extract was administered to male wistar rats. formalin ...

Tea is a famous non-alcoholic beverage worldwide. Various types of tea are prepared to meet the demand different people. Among various types, green (GTE), black (BTE), and Pu-erh (PEE) major ones. The objective this study was investigate physicochemical characteristics antioxidant potential three extracts be considered as an in-flight beverage. pH (5.62) GTE significantly highest whereas titrat...

It is believed that anticancer and apoptosis inducing properties of green tea are mediated by it's polyphenolic constituents particularly catechins. A number of reports have shown that green tea polyphenol (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is among the most effective chemopreventive and apoptosis-inducing agents present in the beverage. Plant polyphenols are naturally occurring antioxidants...