Green tea antioxidants?!
Green tea antioxidants?
I'm drinking this Diet Lipton Green Tea with Citrus (it's in a bottle). It says that there are 72mg of flavonoid antioxidants per serving (8 fl oz). Does this mean that it has 72mg of EGCG? Or are there other antioxidants that it has and EGCG is only a small portion of those?
Answers:
epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is a powerful anti-oxidant in green tea. I think that the flavonoid antioxidants they mention are the same as the EGCG in the tea.
Green Tea Flavonoids
Green tea and, to a lesser extent, black tea are rich sources of still another group of flavonoids called catechins. These catehins - including the closely related epigallocatechin-3 gallate (EGCG), epigallocatechin (EGC), and epicatechin-3 gallate (ECG) - form about 30 percent of the dry weight of tea leaves.