If you drink plenty of green tea daily for the antioxidant health benefits it is important to note that green or black tea's ability to keep disease away is limited to home-brewed teas; bottled teas don't offer the same health perks.

On August 22, Shiming Li, PhD, co-author of the study and an analytical and natural product chemist at WellGen, Inc., a biotechnology company in New Jersey, discussed the team's findings at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Boston.