Theaflavins and thearubigins? Me neither, but apparently according to this report in the Telegraph, they’re compounds found in tea that possibly help prevent obesity – but only if there’s no milk in the tea.
As time goes by it seems more and more as if tea’s some kind of superfood. Normally it’s green tea you hear about – they’re both made from the same kind of plant, the difference in them being down to how they are processed. Black tea is fermented – (an oxidisation process rather than an alcohol making one) whereas white and green teas aren’t. It’s this that is believed to increase the amounts of the compounds in the drink that prevent the gut absorbing fats, so the story goes.
I wouldn’t start relying on tea as a diet aid just yet though – the findings so far have come from tests on rats.
