After dinner a glass of tea or a mellow full-bodied coffee, for many people is a great enjoyment of life, and even people think this way, clean mouth, but also help the digestion. In fact, immediately after dinner tea bad for your health, but also a hidden danger for the future laid anemia.

Immediately after dinner tea, large amounts of water into the stomach is digesting food, it dilutes the gastric secretion of digestive juice, thus affecting the stomach for food digestion. In addition, tea contains a lot of tannic acid, tea after a meal, it will cause the stomach did not have time to digest the protein with tannic acid combined into a non-digestible material solidification, which might affect protein digestion and absorption. More importantly, tea hampers the body’s absorption of iron, after dinner drink with 15 grams of dry tea brewing of tea will make the absorption of iron in food 50% reduction in the long run, affect the person’s digestive function, or even cause lack of iron anemia.

Now, there are many people like to drink tea after a meal, I thought I could digestion solution greasy. In fact, this is very detrimental to health. Because a large number of tannic acid in tea will produce tannic acid and protein binding proteins, the role of such substances convergence, so that reduced intestinal motility, thereby prolonging the food residues in the gut residence time, resulting in dry stool.

To avoid symptoms of anemia, about 1-2 hours after meals, gastric emptying, the more appropriate drink coffee or tea; usual can also be more intake of green leafy vegetables, beans, liver and other iron-rich foods, in order to avoid lack of heme.

Best to drink tea at night. Because green tea are not fermented tea, tea polyphenols content higher, stronger irritant; black tea is fully fermented tea, weak irritant. Bubble tea was not too thick. Fasting tea easy to inhibit gastric secretion, impeding digestion and may even cause severe heart palpitations, headaches and other “tea drunk” phenomenon.