U.S. scientific researchers have found that drinking hot lemon tea can help prevent skin cancer. Scientists reached this conclusion after studying the cases of 450 people surveyed.
Hot Lemon Tea Can Prevent Skin Cancer
Among these 450 people, half had a specific type of skin cancer. Scientists studied the tea-drinking habits of these more than 400 people during the investigation.
Scientists found that people with skin cancer drank less hot tea compared to other surveyed individuals. Researchers found that if citrus fruit peels are added when brewing tea, the consumer's chance of developing cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is reduced by about 70%. However, the survey found that drinking black tea without added peels only reduces the risk of skin cancer by about 40%.
Researchers at the University of Arizona in the U.S. hope that the above findings can be used to develop some food additives to reduce users' chances of developing skin cancer.
Cancer prevention charities have welcomed this finding. However, officials at these organizations believe that further research is still needed. The heads of these charities say that unless there is further evidence to prove the cancer-preventing effect of hot tea, people still need to take sufficient preventive measures.
Some researchers in the United Kingdom pointed out that so far, experiments on humans have shown that applying green tea extracts to human skin does have a protective function against sun damage. Therefore, researchers believe that drinking tea infusions orally should theoretically also have the effect of preventing skin cancer. The above research was conducted in Arizona, U.S., where the incidence of skin cancer is the highest in the country.
However, researchers found that the skin cancer-preventing effect of chilled tea is not as good as that of hot tea.