Antimutagenic and Anticarcinogenic Potency of Green Tea(Camellia sinensis)

  • Kinae, Naohide (School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

Tea is the most popular beverage in the world, especially green tea (Camellia sinensis) is daily taken by Asian people including Japanese. In last two decades, a variety of biological effects of tea components such as antioxidative, antimutagenic, anticarcinogenic, antibacterial and radical scavenging activities on bacteria, cultured cells and mammals have been elucidated.(omitted)

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