If you are planning on including decaffeinated green tea to your daily lifestyle? think again. The benefits of drinking green tea are numerous and can even cure serious illness and diseases. Decaffeinated green tea is one delightful way to enjoy your favorite beverage. It is done by brewing the tea for several minutes to lessen the amount of caffeine and the bitterness made by the plant.  Millions of green tea drinkers all over the world follow the same procedure in preparing their usual morning drink. But did you know that this process loses some of green tea’s important substances that are beneficial to our body? In this article, you will discover some of important facts and the disadvantages of decaffeinated green tea.

Caffeine is one of basic substance of green tea that plays an important role for most people’s lives especially to those who works at night. Although we know that caffeine is one of the factors of sleeping problems that may lead to exhaustion and poor brain performance. But it provides alertness and energy as long as it is taken with moderation. It also contributes in assisting anti-cancer activities of the anti-oxidants of green tea. Caffeine also helps burn abdominal fats when combined with catechins that may help reduce the risk of weight problems and heart disease. However, green tea that went to the process of decaffeination loses most of its caffeine content.

Decaffeination also loses its anti-oxidant substances. Anti-oxidants help get rid toxins in our body. According to scientific studies, decaffeinated green teas only have half anti-oxidant content compared to other non-decaffeinated green teas. They also measured the cathechin content of green teas compared to the decaffeinated ones and they came to find that regular unprocessed green tea contains 21/103 mg/gram while decaffeinated ones only contains 4 to 39 mg/gram. Researchers believe that green tea loses these important and helpful substances due to this procedure.

As for its advantages, drinking green tea is not bad for you. It is just a less bitter and less caffeinated version of the regular green tea. Although the benefits that you are getting from the decaffeinated ones are fewer, but you can still reach the same benefits of the non-processed green tea if you drink more quantity. For most tea drinkers, this is a great advantage for they can have as much green tea as they want without thinking or risking their health.