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Green
tea
(Hanzi: 绿茶 Traditional Hanzi: 綠茶
pinyin: Lǜ chá) is a tea name made from tea plant leaves (Camellia sinensis)
picked and subjected to heating to prevent oxidation, or it may mean the
beverages produced by brewing the tea leaves .
Green tea is a popular drink
in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Middle East, Southeast Asia and
increasingly known also in Western countries who used to be drinkers of black
tea.
The many catechin clusters
contained in green tea in the form of an epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG)
molecule can inhibit tumorigenesis at the initiation, promotion and progression
stage.
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