Green tea is known for its numerous health benefits but our bodies have a hard time absorbing and using all those nutrients.
“We can drink a lot of green tea and you may think that that’s how you’re going to get all those goodies from green tea. Unfortunately, our bodies have a really hard time absorbing the compounds in green tea,” said Dr. Kristin Morris, senior research scientist at Amways’ Research and Clinical Investigations, in a media launch.
“We absorb maybe as little as 7 percent of the total amount of the compounds,” she added.
Aside from absorption, our bodies also find it difficult to move the healthy compounds to our tissues for them to be useful.
Amway introduced its new product, Nutrilite Green Trim, a food supplement that will help our bodies absorb and benefit from green tea’s healthy components, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) which helps in weight management.
Green Trim uses a special technology called Green Select Phytosome which helps in the absorption of EGCG.