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Vitamins in Tea

Vitamin A

The scientific named of Vitamin A is Retinol. Vitamin A is shown to enhance vision and promotes healthy eyes. It also plays an important role in strengthening the immune system by increasing the amount of white blood cells in the body. White blood cells make up our defensive system against harmful bacteria and virus.

Tea leaves contain different forms of Vitamin A. Once consuming into the body, these inactive forms of Vitamin A are transformed into active retinol.

Vitamin B

Vitamin B in tea is mostly vitamin B2, a water-soluble vitamin also called Riboflavin. Vitamin B2 exists in the body in very small quantity. It helps form blood cells and regulate the break down of fats and amino acids. It also plays an important role in energy production and helps maintain healthy and young-looking skin. It increases the antibodies to fight off diseases, for example, it can reduce headache and help concentrate.

Vitamin B2 is very important for supplying the cells with energy. It enhances cellular respiration and removal of carbon dioxide in the body. It also strengthens the mucous system. Thus, vitamin B can help protect the skin and eyes from harmful substances.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is the most abundant vitamin in tea. White and green teas have ten times as much vitamin C than red and black teas. Vitamin C is easily destroyed by heat and light. It travels in the blood and protects the cells. It helps strengthen the immune system and reduce gene defections, thus helps lower cancer risk. It can protect the digestive system from bacterial infections and reduce inflammation in the mouth and gums. Vitamin C plays an important role in smoothing the blood flow, reducing the risk of heart attack and the level of LDL (commonly known as the "bad" cholesterol).

Vitamin C is also known as, ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, the antiscorbutic vitamin, L-xyloascorbic acid and L-threo-hex-2-uronic acidy-lactone. It is a much talked about vitamin, with people claiming it as a cure-all for many diseases and problems - from cancer to the common cold.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is also referred to as calciferol and can rightly be called the sunshine vitamin, since the body, in a sunny climate can manufacture this nutrient from sunshine on your skin using cholesterol from your body.

Vitamin D is fat-soluble. A good companion to vitamin D is calcium. Vitamin D can help the body to absorb calcium. Calcium is an important part of teeth and bones. It can prevent the formation of brittle bones, thus can decrease the risk of bone fracture, joint pain, and arthritis pain.

Vitamin D in tea and food is in inactive form. Once in our blood stream, inactive vitamin D molecules are delivered to the kidney where they are transformed in to active Vitamin D.

Vitamin E

Vitemin E is an essential fat-soluble vitamin that includes eight naturally occurring compounds in two classes designated as tocopherols and locotrienols. It has antioxidant properties to protect the cells from harmful substances. Its scientific name is alpha-tocopherol. The body needs fats to take in vitamin E.

Vitamin E is an effective chain-breaking, lipid-soluble antioxidant in biological membranes, and aids in membrane stability. It helps regulate normal growth in the eyes. It helps slow the oxidation process, thus helps decrease aging rate of the cells. It also helps lower the risk of blood clots formation, thus helps reduce the risk of suffering heart attack and stroke.

Vitamin K

Vitamin K is a group of lipophilic, hydrophobic vitamins that are needed for the posttranslational modification of certain proteins, mostly required for blood coagulation but also involved in metabolism pathways in bone and other tissue. Vitamin K is fat-soluble.

Vitamin K can interact with enzymes to regulate blood clotting. It is produced in the liver by vitamin-K-producing bacterial in the intestine. Vitamin K can reduce the risk of excessive and uncontrolled bleeding and increase bond density to reduce the risk of broken of soft bones.

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