FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2007, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (8): 584-589.

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Research Advances of Health and Pharmacological Functions of Tea Catechins

 MAO  Qing-Li, SHI  Zhao-Peng, LI  Ling, LIU  Zhong-Hua, ZHU  Qi   

  1. 1.College of Life Science, Xiaogan University, Xiaogan 432100, China;2.College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China;3.College of Life Science, South China Normal Univeristy, Guangzhou 510631, China
  • Online:2007-08-15 Published:2011-10-24

Abstract: There are thousands year of history for drinking tea in China and the world. The benefits of drinking tea to human health are well known and confirmed by a large of pharmocological results and experiments. The most effective components in tea are catechins. The various health and pharmacological functions of tea catechins in sum as tri-anti-effects (anti-cancer, anti-aging and antioxidative effects), tri-hypo-effects (hypoglycemic, hypolipaemic and hypotensive effects) and tri-de-effects(disinfected, dephlogisticated and deodorized effects) of the tea catechins are systematically reviewed in this paper.

Key words: catechins, pharmacological functions, tri-anti-effects, trihypo-effects, tri-de-effects