Tea is bitter and helps cool, detoxify, promote digestive secretion to enhance digestive function.
However, you should not arbitrarily combine tea consumed at the same time with many types of food, drinks... which will affect your health. Here are some side effects of tea when taken at the same time:
1. Tea and Lamb
When eating Lamb meat and drinking tea, the amount of protein in Lamb meat will combine with the tannic acid in tea to form a substance called acid- detoxifying protein. This substance can impair intestinal and stomach mobility, reduce the amount of water in stools, and easily cause constipation.
Therefore, you should not drink tea immediately after eating Lamb meat, you should wait 2-3 hours before drinking tea.
2. Tea and eggs
Tea contains a lot of tannic acid, which can turn the protein in eggs into a thickening substance, making it difficult to digest, affecting the body's absorption and use of protein, causing indigestion.
3. Tea and wine
Many people have the habit of drinking tea after drinking alcohol to reduce the feeling of vomiting, however, the acetaldehyde converted from alcohol after drinking tea will stimulate the kidneys, you will easily have a cold stomach, frequent urination, and is harmful to the kidneys.
4. Tea and medicine
Tannic acid in tea can chemically react with some drugs to cause confusion, affecting the absorption of drugs. Therefore, when taking medicine, you should drink it with warm water instead of tea.
