Tea & Health Facts
The TAP website is dedicated to bringing you the facts about how tea, the world’s favourite drink, can help you maintain your health as part of a balanced diet and healthy, active lifestyle. If you need questions answering about tea and looking after your health, or if you want to know why drinking at least 4 cups of tea a day is a good way for you to help maintain your health, then look no further.
Thought of the month
"New research suggests that five cups of tea a day could help prevent the development of certain forms of brain cancer. It's not clear how this protection is achieved but the researchers behind this new data believe caffeine, found in tea, may help reduce blood flow to the brain and so prevent potential cancer from growing. More research is needed. Another great example of the many health benefits in a cup of tea." More
Did you know?
- Approximately 40% of the nation's fluid intake today will be tea
- Tea without milk has no calories. Using semi-skimmed milk adds around 13 calories per cup, but you also benefit from valuable minerals and calcium.
- Four cups of tea with milk provides 21% of daily calcium requirement.
- Tea is a source of the minerals manganese, essential for bone growth and body development, and potassium, vital for maintaining body fluid levels.
- The average cup of tea contains less than half the level of caffeine than coffee. One cup contains only 50mg per 190ml cup.
- Tea is a natural source of fluoride and drinking four cups makes a significant contribution to your daily intake. (Only 11% of UK water supply has fluoride added.)
- Green and black teas are from the same plant, Camelia sinensis, and contain similar amounts of antioxidants and caffeine.
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Tea and Oral Health Fact Sheet | 12 February 2007 | Dental disease remains a significant problem in the UK with the vast majority of the population suffering with the consequences of this disease at some stage in their lives. It can result in acute pain, aesthetic problems and can increase the risk of toot | 62 KB |
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Tea and Cancer | 12 February 2007 | Cancer is a major cause of morbidity in the UK with over 200,000 newly diagnosed cases, and around 120,000 deaths from cancer each year. It is expected that more than one in three people in England will develop cancer at some stage in their lives. The dis | 76 KB |
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Tea and Antioxidant properties | 12 February 2007 | Increasing evidence is highlighting the role antioxidants may have in helping to maintain your health in a variety of ways by opposing the action of free radicals. In addition to the well known antioxidants such as Vitamins C and E, there is growing resea | 73 KB |
Myth Buster
“Is drinking tea bad for the bones?”
No. In the past it was thought that certain constituents found in tea, such as caffeine and fluoride, may weaken the bones. However, recent research is now suggesting that drinking tea can actually... Learn more
UK Tea Consumption
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