Can black tea fight diabetes? Yes, black tea can help fight diabetes according to researchers from the Tianjin Key Laboratory in China.
The researchers, whose work was published in the Journal of Food Science, found that black tea can help fight diabetes on the basis of the study of polysaccharide levels in green, oolong and black teas.
They found that polysaccharide in black tea had the most glucose inhibiting properties when compared to green and oolong teas.
Polysaccharides is a kind of carbohydrate, which includes starch and cellulose. It may benefit diabetic people as they help retard absorption of glucose.
The researchers also found that polysaccharides in black tea had the highest scavenging effect on free radicals, which are believed to lead to cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and other illnesses.
The researchers believe that there was a great potential for exploitation of polysaccharide in black tea for managing diabetes.
