USDA’s report on flavonoid contents of popular food and beverages that I quoted in the Health Benefits of Tea article in Tea Guardian has some figures on the range of flavonoid contents bottled tea products have. I am sure Itoen and UCC are better products but am also sure that if you consider antioxidant contents, they would still be in the range of the USDA report.
Flavonoid content of all bottled tea are many times lower than the “average” cup of tea. Having said that, however, it’s still tea.
ICE is right, the range of choice here in the East is so huge that I don’t know where to begin describing them here. Obviously there is a huge market need for it as alternatives to water and aerated drinks. There are many choices that are not sugared, low sugared, or non-sugar sweetened. Even big brother players like Coca-cola offers their range of options too.
There are increasing choices in the US and the West, but a lot come in ridiculous prices. A lot also come and go.
I will post some that are available here in Hong Kong, hope others interested will post those that are available in their market.
There will be an article on bringing tea out in an outing in the next Tea Guardian update. Read that.
