Green tea and Vitamin C

Having just gotten off the phone with my health insurance company, and being reminded of the industry of incompetence it has grown to become, I am that much more thankful that I'm in good health.

To help me stay that way, I may start adding vitamin C to my daily cup of green tea. Green tea is rightly known as being a very healthy beverage, due to its high antioxidant content. But, as a new study from Purdue University found, adding vitamin C to it actually makes these antioxidants (specifically, catechins) more available to the body.

Typically, less than 20 percent of catechins remain effective after digestion. Adding juices high in vitamin C or the simultaneous ingestion of a vitamin C supplement, however, markedly increased the absorption of this antioxidant. Sounds like I may be adding a bit of lemon to my green tea from now on.