Jasmine plants are widely cultivated for their beautiful flowers. While preparing the jasmine green tea, these flowers are picked up in the midnight or early in the morning, when they bloom completely. These flowers are then placed together with green tea leaves to transfer the fragrance. Then the flowers are removed after 4 hours and fresh jasmine flowers are again kept with green tea leaves. The process is repeated few more times and then the tea is processed. The quality of the jasmine green tea depends on the number of times the green tea is scented with jasmine flowers. A high quality jasmine green tea undergoes, almost seven scenting sessions. Now, let us take a look at jasmine green tea benefits.
Jasmine Green Tea Health Benefits:
Jasmine green tea is a great combination, where you can enjoy the health benefits of both green tea and jasmine. Jasmine plant extract helps in preventing number of diseases and it also has aromatherapy benefits. Jasmine green tea may pose problems in pregnancy due to its caffeine content. So, to know more on relation between jasmine green tea and pregnancy you should consult physician before consuming it. The list of jasmine green tea health benefits is quite long and given below are few of them.
Weight Loss:
Jasmine green tea contains catechins which has fat burning properties and aids weight loss. Drinking jasmine green tea increases metabolic rate thereby burning fats at faster rate. According to a recent survey, people who drink jasmine green tea lose weight at faster rate as compared to those who drink oolong tea.
Prevents Diseases:
Jasmine green tea contains antioxidants and hence it helps in preventing number of diseases. It reduces the multiplication of cancer cells in the body. Thus the anticancer properties of jasmine green tea, help in both prevention and treatment of cancer. It also helps to avoid diabetes and heart problems.
Aromatherapy:
As mentioned earlier, jasmine green tea has aromatherapy benefits due to fragrance of jasmine. The fragrance of jasmine has calming and soothing effect. The odor of this tea has antianxiety effects and is said to be effective than the medications used for treating anxiety.
Lowers Cholesterol:
The catechins present in jasmine green tea reduce the bad cholesterol level in the body. The reduction of bad cholesterol level promotes good health and prevents fatal health problems like heart attack, brain stroke, arterial sclerosis and thrombosis.
