Green Tea Hp

Here are the basic nutrition facts from the average cappuccino mocha beverage.

Calories 249 for 13 ounces.

Total Fat 4.1g,

Cholesterol 7mg,

Sodium 131mg,

Total Carbs. 45.6g,

Sugars 42.8g

2006 American Society for Nutrition

Barry M Popkin, Lawrence E Armstrong, George M Bray, Benjamin Caballero, Balz Frei and Walter C Willett From the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (BMP); the University of Connecticut Human Performance Laboratory, Storrs, CT (LEA); the Louisiana State University Medical Center and Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA (GMB); the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (BC); Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (BF); and the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (WCW)

The Beverage Guidance Panel was assembled to provide guidance on the relative health and nutritional benefits and risks of various beverage categories. The beverage panel was initiated by the first author. The Panel’s purpose is to attempt to systematically review the literature on beverages and health and provide guidance to the consumer. An additional purpose of the Panel is to develop a deeper dialog among the scientific community on overall beverage consumption patterns in the United Sates and on the great potential to change this pattern as a way to improve health. Over the past several decades, levels of overweight and obesity have increased across all population groups in the United States. Concurrently, an increased daily intake of 150=96300 kcal (for different age-sex groups) has occurred, with approximately 50% of the increased calories coming from the consumption of calorically sweetened beverages. The panel ranked beverages from the lowest to the highest value based on caloric and nutrient contents and related health benefits and risks. Drinking water was ranked as the preferred beverage to fulfill daily water needs and was followed in decreasing value by tea and coffee, low-fat (1.5% or 1%) and skim (nonfat) milk and soy beverages, non calorically sweetened beverages, beverages with some nutritional benefits (fruit and vegetable juices, whole milk, alcohol, and sports drinks), and calorically sweetened, nutrient-poor beverages. The Panel recommends that the consumption of beverages with no or few calories should take precedence over the consumption of beverages with more calories.

Published in HortScience 44: 15-19 (2009)American Society for Horticultural Science

Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence?

Donald R. Davis Biochemical Institute, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712; and Bio-Communications Research Institute, 3100 North Hillside Avenue, Wichita, KS 67219

“Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations. The widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. Studies of historical food composition data are inherently limited, but the other methods can focus on single crops of any kind, can include any nutrient of interest, and can be carefully controlled. They can also test proposed methods to minimize or overcome the diluting effects of yield whether by environmental means or by plant breeding.”

In other words the 20% percent of the population that actually eats what they’re supposed to, now will need to eat more to offset the decline in nutrient content. Which adds calories…the solution…GreenTea HP! Concentrated antioxidants with minerals to compensate for the decrease in our food!  Josh Smith

Check out the third party article covering the many benefits of EGCG only found in green tea.

Josh Smith