In recent years, the popularity of a healthy lifestyle has increased markedly. Increasingly, people refuse to quench their thirst with harmful Coca-Cola and other sweet carbonated drinks in hot weather, choosing Ice Tea - iced tea. However, its usefulness is also questionable.
Sugary sodas really do not quench your thirst in the heat, but only increase the concentration of glucose in the blood. Together with them, a lot of harmful substances enter the body. That is why many people opt for so-called "iced teas", which at first glance may seem like a healthy alternative to soda.
Ice Tea are drinks that are also sold chilled in almost all food stalls and retail outlets. They are actually healthier than sugary soda with colorings, but significantly more harmful than natural homemade tea. We often see photos of bright and colorful bottles with chilled tea in advertisements, and manufacturers claim that their drinks are a real storehouse of useful substances from tea leaves, combined with excellent cooling properties.
Natural teas contain a record amount of vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, trace elements, and essential oils. All this has a general strengthening effect on the human body, but this happens only if the tea is drunk fresh. In China, there really was a tradition to chill the drink and drink it cooled down, but this still does not cancel the rules of freshness. Can any beneficial substances be preserved in a drink that is bottled in a factory and then stored for a long time in warehouses and shops, if vitamins are oxidized within 30 minutes after making tea? It is known that even highly fermented tea, which is stored in dry form for years, should be drunk immediately after brewing.
The standard Ice Tea of most manufacturers includes purified drinking water, as well as tea extract, color, flavor, sucrose. It is believed that high-quality iced teas should contain no preservatives, no flavors, or artificial colors, but there are practically no such products on the market. That is why nutritionists urge not to abuse such drinks: they are healthier than Coca-Cola, but in the end they are still ordinary sweetened water. It is much healthier to quench your thirst with real green tea.
