Many friends pay special attention to health preservation, so they like to drink tea for health benefits every day. There are many benefits to drinking tea, but how much do you know about the common misconceptions about tea?
From the perspective of a healthy diet, drinking tea is indeed beneficial to health, but there are some foods that should not be consumed with tea. The following text introduces the types of foods that should never be eaten when drinking tea.
One, Tea and White Sugar
Tea is bitter and cold in nature. The purpose of drinking tea is to use its bitterness to stimulate the digestive glands, promote the secretion of digestive fluids, and enhance digestive function. Another purpose is to use the cooling nature of tea to achieve the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. White sugar is one of the foods that should never be added to tea. If sugar is added to tea, it will inhibit this function. However, ancient texts also contain folk remedies for treating diseases with tea and sugar, which can be used as a dietary therapy, but it is not suitable for regular tea drinking.
Two, Tea and Eggs
I believe many people love to eat tea eggs. However, this is actually a wrong way to eat them. When tea is used to boil eggs, the concentration of tea is very high. Strong tea contains a lot of tannic acid, which can turn the protein in food into indigestible coagulated substances, affecting the human body's absorption and utilization of protein. Eggs are one of the foods that should never be eaten with tea. Eggs are a high-protein food, so they should not be boiled in tea and eaten.
Three, Tea and Alcohol
Many people love to drink tea after alcohol, hoping to moisten dryness, relieve drunkenness, aid digestion, and promote urination. However, this is harmful to the kidneys. Alcohol is one of the foods that should never be consumed with tea. Because drinking tea after alcohol, the theophylline in tea has a diuretic effect. At this time, acetaldehyde, which is converted from alcohol, has not been fully decomposed. It enters the kidneys due to the diuretic effect of theophylline. Acetaldehyde has a great irritating effect on the kidneys, which can easily damage kidney function. Then symptoms such as kidney coldness, impotence, frequent and turbid urination, and testicular pain will follow.
Four, Tea and Mutton
Although eating mutton from time to time is very beneficial to the body, when eating mutton and drinking tea, the rich protein in mutton can "combine" with the tannic acid in tea to form a substance called tannic acid protein. This substance has a certain astringent effect on the intestines, which can weaken intestinal peristalsis, reduce the water in stool, and easily cause constipation. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink tea while eating mutton. It is also not advisable to drink tea immediately after eating mutton; you should wait 2-3 hours before drinking tea. Therefore, mutton is one of the foods that should never be eaten with tea.
Five, Avoid Drinking Tea After Eating Dog Meat
Dog meat is rich in protein, and tea contains a lot of tannic acid. If you drink tea immediately after eating dog meat, the tannic acid in tea will combine with the protein in dog meat to form tannic acid protein. This substance has an astringent effect, which can weaken intestinal peristalsis and cause constipation. Metabolically produced toxic substances and carcinogens will be passively absorbed in the intestines, which is not good for health. Dog meat is one of the foods that should never be eaten with tea. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink tea after eating dog meat.
Six, It is not advisable to take medicine with tea water
This is because the tannic acid in tea can have a chemical reaction with certain drugs (such as ferrous sulfate tablets, ferrous ammonium citrate, berberine, etc.) to form a precipitate, affecting drug absorption. If you take sedatives (such as phenobarbital, diazepam, etc.) with tea water, the stimulants in tea, such as caffeine and theophylline, will counteract or weaken the sedative effect of the drug. Phoenix Chinese Medicine also reminds that because there are many types of drugs, it is not easy to master, so it is always beneficial and harmless to take them with warm water.
What are the foods that should never be eaten when drinking tea? The foods introduced above should not be consumed with tea. There are many dietary taboos. If you are not aware of them, it will harm your health. Therefore, for our bodies, we must pay attention to food pairing when drinking tea.