The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on illegal health claims on tea products. After years of inattention, the FDA recently sent an unprecedented number of warning letters to companies in the tea industry, all of them highlighting illegitimate marketing of tea’s health benefits.

Read more at How to Market Tea in a New Era of FDA Enforcement

Federal health regulators have issued warnings to the makers of Canada Dry ginger ale and Lipton tea for making unsubstantiated nutritional claims about their green tea-flavored beverages.

Read Mr. Perrone’s entire article FDA cites claims on 2 green tea beverages.

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The amounts of antioxidants, or polyphenols, in bottled, ready-to-drink teas may be less than in home-brewed teas, according to a study presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, being held this week in Boston.

“Consumers understand very well the concept of the health benefits from drinking tea or consuming other tea products,” said Shiming Li, a senior scientist at WellGen, Inc., who reported on the new study with Professor Chi-Tang Ho, a professor in the department of food science at Rutgers, and his colleagues. “However, there is a huge gap between the perception that tea consumption is healthy and the actual amount of the healthful nutrients — polyphenols — found in bottled tea beverages. Our analysis of tea beverages found that the polyphenol content is extremely low.”

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Just three cups of tea a day could slash the risk of breast cancer in young women, according to new research.

The chances of developing a tumour dropped by around 37 per cent in women under 50 who drank tea at least three times daily.

Read more: Three cups of tea a day ‘slashes breast cancer risk’ for under 50s

An active ingredient of green tea has been found effective in treating leukaemia patients, say Green tea researchers.

Read more Green tea may help treat leukemia

At least three cups of Indian or Chinese tea reduces the risk of a stroke by more than a fifth, according to researchers.

A major study carried out by scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles found that tea could well be a powerful weapon in the fight against strokes.

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