If I put sugar in Green Tea, does it spoil the benefit?

I think it's bitter without sugar, is because the amount of tea leaves you put in the cup is more than the required quantity. Try reducing the amount of tea leaves and you may find the taste better. Good luck!

If you find green tea bitter, it generally means you are over brewing it, and/or using too hot water. Normal, black, tea, ie fermented tea, needs boiling water to infuse properly. However, it is said that green tea is best using water that has gone off the boil for a few minutes; the tea Nazis say 85 degrees.

For gunpowder, I always let the kettle go off the boil for a couple of minutes and then brew for about 1 1/2 mins, no more than 2 mins. It never tastes bitter, just delicious and refreshing, I don't take sugar anyway.

This is a contraversial point as some people think that it does, while others say it doesn't affect the benefits at all. Personally I can't see why it should but you can replace the sugar with a good honey which also will have some beneficial qualities to it and this should balance it out.

Sugar feeds candida a yeast problem most of us in the past 100 years are born with dut to poor diets, don't do it! Use Stevia, I love Truvia stevia, its great flavor for the price, and Stevia alkalizes your body, just like green tea, so it is actually beneficial where as sugar acidifies your body and feeds yeast, and free radicals! Alot of these answers are obviously by people who don't know a think about natural health and healing!

You will still get the antioxidant benefits from the Green Tea;however I have a sweet tooth and repace sugar with honey instead,it will take the bitterness away and has health benefits too :).

If you are afraid of sugar (even if it is brown), use honey. One cup of Green Tea only has almost no benefit for health at all.

Adding sugar, honey, milk, or cream does not affect the antioxidant benefits whatsoever. Try green mint tea for a less bitter taste.

As far as I know,it does...but adding little bit sugar won't be that bad!

There is nothing wrong with adding sugar to green tea when drinking, but sugar contains calories, and by adding sugar you are ingesting non-nutritional calories. If you are using green tea for weight loss purposes, then give it a thought! You can add 1/2 sugar or try adding little honey to make it sweet.

Also calorie count depends on what you eat totally, as long as you do not go over the maximum daily allowance.

It depends ...if you are taking green tea for losing weight obviously it will be useless...but if taking for other purposes than it wont.

No effect what so ever :) it will not spoil the effect of green tea but it will give you the sugar benefits too:P.

Don't worry; it doesn't destroy any health properties as sugar doesn't contain a high content of minerals. Some minerals don't go well together, such as calcium and iron, yet sugar is a pure condement, it won't have any effect. Make sure you use a deep brown sugar, as it is significantly healthier than sweetner or white sugar.

Also; white tea (I think it's the root of green tea? ) is even better health wise then green, yet it's ten times more bitter.

I'm sure it does, I would use honey that seems to do the trick.

You're still getting the benefit of green tea, even though you're adding the effects of sugar. I suppose it's a double-edged sword.

Try Agave Nectar a low glycemic sweetener. Stevia or sweet leaf not bad but you may need the Agave to take the edge off. "Sun Crystals" is a product with sugar and stevia and only has five calories per packet.

Both are natural without artificial sweeteners.

I think sugar adds another benefit to green tea: calories (energy), instead of spoiling it. If you need the sense of sweetness and fear the fattening effect of sugar, why don't you use synthetic sugar instead, meant for diet purposes or diabetes patients. It usually contains aspartam.

I agree with Tatjana-Mihaela with her suggestion to use honey. Honey also has other benefits: anti aging and antioxidant.

No though it would raise your calorie intake.

I believe there is no harm adding sugar to green tea. The main chemical compunds with benefits for health in green tea are caffeine and theanine. Caffeine being a phosphodiesterase inhibitor brings about most of the effects related to cholestrol and is beneficial in the long run.

Theanine boosts up the cognitive effects for a short period of time providing you with relaxation as well as alertness at the same time. Both these chemicals are not affected by sugar. Addition of sugar is critisized because intake of sugar is anyway not a healthy practise.

Sugar is converted very quickly in to glucose and fructose in the bowel and is absorbed rapidly. So it may adversely affect the control of a diabetic and may at the same time exrert additional stress on the pancreas in a non-diabetic. That is why it is said addition of sugar decreases the benefit.

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