Does having milk in your tea have a negative effect on the anti oxidants?

Question

Does having milk in your tea have a negative effect on the anti oxidants?

Answer 1

Addition of milk does not alter the antioxidant activity of black tea.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16020...

http://www.cookscorner.net/Tea/Antioxida...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2796...

These links will confirm this. Hope you agree.

Answer 2

whether it does or not, you can get high levels of ascorbic acid, lycopene and carotenes from fruits, vegetables. as well as lots of resveratrol and flavonoids (the polyphenolic antioxidants found in tea) in coffee, soy, fruit, olive oil, chocolate, oregano and red wine.

Tea is also contains 700 other chemicals know to pose health benefits, such as normalising blood pressure and depressing lipid activity.

Too many anti-oxidants are bad for you anyway, as your body needs some free-radicals for things such as controlling vascular tone.

So if you want milk in your tea, have milk in your tea. I has been drunk in such away for a long time, and to date, their is n evidence that anyone dies as a result of it.

Answer 3

Yes, it does. Milk contains the protein casein, which attaches itself to the antioxidants (the main antioxidant in tea is called epogallocatechin gallate, or EGCG) and renders the it much less effective. The antioxidant works by absorbing the so-called free radicals, which break down the cells in the body. But if the antioxidant is already attached to a casein molecule, it has no capacity to do its good work in the body.

Answer 4

No.

And it means you get some extra calcium, too.