Green Tea Forum

T · Black Belt Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 108

Hello, I've been drinking green tea since late 2005. I've just started taking the green tea extract capules this week.

I'd like to read opinions and get more information about green tea extract capsules

Ryan · Sensei Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 475

Capsules provide me with absolutely no interest frankly. Tea has properties that relax the mind, body and spirit and a capsule will never accomplish this.

I prefer to drink the leaf.

Also, the capsules only encompass the property of the tea plant that scientist identify as having the health benefits but tea is made up of many many substances.... Who knows what other beneficial substances are in the brew that never show up in the capsule.

I have such a love for tea that the idea of putting it in a capsule is odd to me.

That being said I don't know much about capsules just that my personal opinion is that they do not appeal to me at all.

T · Black Belt Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 108

Cool, thanks for your reply.

What did you mean when you said "internet frankly" ?

Ryan · Sensei Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 475

Typo - I meant interest

T · Black Belt Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 108

What do you think of multivitamins ?

The GNC ones that I take contain 10-15 mg of green tea extract.

Prussian · Guest

Multivitamins are great, but you are better off trying to get "the good stuff" straight from nature.

Green tea extract? Bah. Get yourself a good matcha.

I'm a little biased though.

Prussian Mr. Green

Matcha Freak

Chip · Posted: Apr 30, 2006 5:39 am Post subject:

...I'd rather drink tea than swallow it in a pill!!! That would take all the fun out of it. It's the whole tea culture thing, you can't put that in a pill.

By the way, a lot/most of those bottled iced teas out there are not made with "tea," but with green/black tea extracts and flavor/fruit extracts("natural flavors" can include extracts)...HMMMMMMM!!! One more incentive to make even your own iced tea and read labels!!!!

Idrom · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 9

I think the warmth of the beverage & the use of beatiful teaware is necessary for a real relaxing effect. A tea pill is a conradiction: a rapidly working pill to stop wanting things on short term (is this good english?).

wehayley · Posted: Jun 22, 2006 12:45 am Post subject:

Few things "extracted" from nature provide the same benefits as when consumed in a state of "wholeness." For example, Western pharmaceutical companies tend to separate the "active ingrediant" from the rest of the plant (willow bark and aspirin are a good example). Then the makers wonder why the effect isn't the same as when the proper part of the plant (be it leaves, body, flowers, or root) is consumed by indigenous people; or why unexpected and unpleasant side-effects spring forth. No doubt, part of the benefits of tea drinking are lost in extracts. Another component to keep in mind is the additional benefits of sitting with friends or just gazing out a window, looking out at the world and slowly consuming a warm cup of tea. There is just no way to bottle that experience...

Ryan · Sensei Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 475

Wehayley.. Very well said... I myself love the stillness of drinking a cup of tea and just enjoying the peace and quite.

RichardThrower · Uh, Can I Add Sugar? Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 10

As for me I do both. I drink Green Tea for the many benefits it contains (polyphenols, tannins, Catechins, Flavonoids, and Theanine), and I also take the Green Tea Extract for the large amount of EGCG that you can get in the capsule. Dont get me wrong, you can get a decent amount of EGCG from drinking the tea however, it takes upwards of 8 to 10 cups a day that you can get from one cap.

So all and all I get the best of both worlds. Very Happy

cgyh · Posted: Jul 17, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: