EFFECTS OF GREEN TEA (CAMELLIA SINENSIS) ON SERUM CHOLESTEROL

Abstract

Green tea (Camellia Sinensis) has become a subject of interest because of its beneficial effect on human health. It is a widely consumed beverage in the world and contains anti-oxidant such as catechin. Epidemiological studies have reported that it has a multi-functional component that is involved in lowering of serum cholesterol, anti cancer activities, neuroprotection, weight loss, increase thermogenesis. Etc and these effect are mainly ascribed to the gallate eaters of catechin which are the (-) catechin gallate, (-)  epicatechin gallate, (-) epigallocatechin gallote and (-) gallocatechin gallate. The result further showed that green tea ha a hypercholesterolemia effect although it was statistical insignificant (p<0.05).

KEYWORDS: Camellia Sinensis, Caffeine, Polypherol and Hyper cholesterolemia