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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Iced tea has been a summer beverage since someone plopped a few ice cubes in hot tea to cool it down. Today we drink iced tea year round and the marketplace offers a staggering variety to choose from – flavored, unflavored, sweetened, unsweetened, and diet. Enter a new addition from the Lipton line 100% Natural Green Iced Tea. Why green tea you ask?
Beside taste, and many enjoy the milder flavor, green tea has known antibacterial effects. Green tea is made from the dried leaves of a perennial evergreen shrub, but unlike black tea it is not fermented to develop a stronger flavor.
The Lipton Natural Green Iced Tea flavors are:
Green Tea with Blueberry Pomegranate which has 50 calories in an 8-ounce serving, no fat or protein, 13 grams of carb, 13 grams of sugar and 20 milligrams of sodium.
Green Tea with Citrus which has 70 calories in an 8-ounce serving, no fat or protein, 19 grams of carb, 18 grams of sugar and 20 milligrams of sodium.
Diet Green Tea with Watermelon which has no calories in an 8-ounce serving, no fat, carb, sugar or protein and 25 milligrams of sodium.
Diet Green Tea with Citrus which has no calories in an 8-ounce serving, no fat, carb, sugar or protein and 25 milligrams of sodium.
All the flavors were mildly fruity, pleasant and not overly sweet. All come packaged in a 20-ounce bottle and the nutrition label lists both the values for the entire bottle and for an 8-ounce serving. This is helpful because many people drink the whole bottle. The tea is sweetened with both sugar and stevia, a natural zero-calorie sweetener that comes from a bush native to Central and South America. The diet tea is sweetened with sucralose (a low calorie sweetener) and acesulfame potassium (a no calorie sweetener). All flavors are kosher (OU) certified.
You should know –A Chinese proverb says, “Better to be without food for three days than tea for one.” That may be a very wise adage. It has been shown that heart attack survivors who drank 2 or more cups of tea a day reduced their risk of death over the next 4 years by 44%. The benefits held with black, green, hot, iced, bagged and loose tea – the stronger the brew the better.
For more information go to: http://www.liptont.com/our_products/iced_tea/index.aspx
© NRH Nutrition Consultants, Inc.
Jo-Ann Heslin, MA, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian and the author of the nutrition counter series for Pocket Books with 12 current titles and sales of more than 8.5 million books. The books are widely available at your local or on-line bookseller.
Current titles include:
The Diabetes Counter, 4th Ed., 2011
The Protein Counter, 3rd Ed., 2011
The Calorie Counter, 5th Ed., 2010
The Ultimate Carbohydrate Counter, 3rd Ed., 2010
The Complete Food Counter, 3rd ed., 2009
The Fat Counter, 7th ed., 2009
The Healthy Wholefoods Counter, 2008
The Cholesterol Counter, 7th Ed., 2008
For more information on Jo-Ann and her books, go to TheNutritionExperts
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