Milk Protein Will Block The Effect of Tea

Consuming milk is good for health, but the bunch advantage of milk will disappear if tea is mixed with milk. A research in German shows that the soothing effect of black tea towards the relaxation of artery will lose if once it is contaminated with milk.

Tea is a drink the most consumed in the world, after water off course. Especially after reported that consuming tea will help to reduce the possibility of heart disease and cancer, tea is consumed in wider range. Stangl and his research team sound that the females who consumed a half-liter of black tea has a looser artery than those who aren’t consuming tea. Artery relaxation is proved to be concerned with increasing of blood flow, which is caused by tea. This condition will make the heart disease may reduced.

The effects towards human heart is actually depends on eNOS, an enzyme that synthesize nitro-oxide messenger. Tea will increase the activity of eNOS. But if tea is mixed with tea up to 10%, the relaxation effect won’t be seen anymore.

Research by Stangl has shown that casein protein of milk has blocked the effect of tea. This kind of protein has specifically tight the matter of tea , that is catecin, or which is called EGCG. Catecin is a polyphenol, a material which is considered taking responsible for the health effect of tea