According the recent study natural ingredients in a cup of tea can improve brain power and increase awareness. In order to observe the effects of key chemical found in tea on the mental performance, researchers recruited forty-four participants. The effects of these natural ingredients called L-theanine were compared with the placebo.
These ingredients are also found in green tea and significantly enhanced accurateness crossways a number of switching tasks for those who drank the tea after twenty and seventy minutes, in comparison to the placebo. It was found that attentiveness of tea drinkers was improved.
It was also found by Dutch researchers that tea diminished the fatigue among participants who were aged less than forty years, reported the study published in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience. Earlier studies have revealed that adding milk to tea did not affect the drinker’s assimilation of flavonoids, antioxidants or interrupt the health benefits.
Other studies have already associated drinking tea with decreasing the risk of heart disease, cancer and Parkinson’s. One more study suggested that drinking tea on regular basis for ten or more years can help to improve bone density. So having a cup of tea could help you solve cross word faster.
The most recent findings supported a previous study which showed drinking two cups of black tea improved the ability to react to stimuli and to focus attention on the task in hand, explained Dr Tim Bond from the industry-backed Tea Advisory Panel.
Taken together, these two studies offer substantiation that drinking of black tea improves cognitive function, in particular helping to focus attention during the challenge of a demanding mental task. Consequently, all this new statistics adds to the mounting science that drinking tea, preferably four cups a day, is good for our health and well being, added Dr Bond.