How to Prepare Green Tea For Weight Loss at Home With Recipe

Many of us start our day with one cup of hot tea to get refreshment, and green tea is perhaps the most popular choice among all the varieties of tea leaves. Obviously, most of the tea drinkers like to have their drinks only to enjoy the taste and revive their mood.

However, it is a fact that besides giving pleasures tea may give us lots of benefits to our health, and one of these positive effects is weight loss. If you drink green tea regularly, you may see that you lose your extra weight very fast. Researchers have proved that individuals, who sip green tea almost 2 to 6 times on a daily basis for more than ninety days, lose 5% of weight.

Scientific facts related to green leaves

Green tea may be able to prevent lipolysis, a procedure with which nutritional triglycerides or fats get broken down inside your body. Prevention of such triglycerides’ breakdown stops assimilation of fat, and thus, it makes sure that you do not gain much amount of body weight. In addition to it, catechins, present in your green tea, hold back the main enzyme, named as catechol-O-methyl transferase. It accelerates metabolism, and enhances the calorie burning process.

Green teas with flavors and of different varieties

Some people ask whether the capacity of green tea of controlling weight gets hampered with an addition of flavors, such as, cranberry, apple and pomegranate. These flavors obviously cannot affect the power of green tea. But, while sugar is added, the extra calories may surely negate green tea’s potential for losing weight. Again, there is another doubt regarding iced and hot green tea. From the angle of chemical structure, no difference is present between these two different versions of tea. But, only remember that iced or cold tea is generally excessively tempered with water, and it affects the effectiveness of the tea.

Besides, green tea is available in different varieties and brands. The power or ability of your green tea may have an effect due to the addition of unnecessary components and the leaves’ quality.

In order to get the maximum level of benefits, you may search for those brands, which apply only natural constituents and never add any artificial preservative. You may try to choose two green tea varieties, if possible-

  • Hojicha – It is manufactured from the roasted or dark brown colored green tea leaves. As this picked during the ending part of a season and then heated at very high temperature, hojicha consists of quite lower amount of caffeine.
  • Matcha – Leaves of green tea are crushed into powder form that you may put into water to have the tea. As you use the real leaves, it is possible to gain more amounts of antioxidants from this green tea.

Other benefits apart from weight loss

You have now realized that green tea may manage your weight. Green tea leaves have been utilized for several centuries in the field of Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine to help in digestion, facilitate to cure wounds, boost up heart fitness, alleviate blood sugar, and also improve mental ability. The scientific studies have also proved that the antioxidants, present in this tea, are quite more effective than that of Vitamin C. There are also some other substances in green tea to reduce cholesterol and prevent cancer, diabetes, infection, gum disorder and many more.

Besides, they may also soothe your nervous system with the lessening of epinephrine and Cortisol or stress hormones level. At the same time, it also counteracts the deadly impacts of smoking.

Thus, green tea is really valuable. However, you may like to have it only for weight loss. But, the main fact, which is to be noted, is that you should know how to brew green tea for weight loss because only the right way may help you to get the best possible result. Here you can find some tea brewing processes, which can help you to learn the recipe easily.

Green Tea with iced lavender

This drink contains very low amount of calorie. If you add some lavender blossoms to your tea, it may offer a wonderful aroma. Both green tea and lavender can also reduce hair loss.

Heat some water (½ cup), and take out the pot from oven. Then, add lavender and tea to this warm water. After that, steep and strain this into one bowl. Allow it to become cool for some minutes. Now, pour the drink in any ice filled beaker.

Green Tea with kiwi and mango

It is another delicious green tea recipe for weight loss, in which, you may get the taste of mango. To prepare it, make a blend of mango, water, yogurt, honey, lime rind and water.

Then, process this blend until it becomes smooth. Then, stir it and place it inside your freezer. Again, combine more ingredients, like baby spinach, kiwifruit, honey and yogurt.  Do the same process again. Garnish it with slices of kiwi and serve this drink immediately.

Ginger and lemon grass tea

ginger and green tea for weight loss preparationGinger and lemon are used for cooking many things, and now they become useful for brewing green tea. Tea lovers will surely love this blend. As there are lots of antioxidants and small quantity of caffeine, you may feel more energetic after drinking the tea.

To prepare this tea, you have to take one stalk of lemon grass and wash it thoroughly. Then, cut them into pieces (two inches). In a pan, boil some ginger, water, sugar and lemon grass. After taking off this pan, add tea bags. Then, steep this tea for almost five minutes, and take out those bags when you find that the tang is quite strong. Allow this tea to be cooled down for almost half an hour. Pour your tea into a kettle.

Blueberry and green tea

It is a smoothie, which combines all components that are able to improve your rate of metabolism. At the same time, it also burns off the fat, present in your waist portion. Besides, as almonds are present in this green tea recipe, you can not only manage your weight but also benefit your skin. If you are smoothie lover, then this recipe is best for you.

The process is quite same as the other others. Boil the water and place the tea bags inside it. Press and take away the bags; cool the tea all night. While making use of fresh blueberry, you have to keep this fruit in your fridge for one night. Place these constituents in a blending machine, and process it until it becomes smooth.

Cranberry and green tea

This is also a tasty method of making green tea for weight loss as it involves fruits for the preparation. It is, in fact, the most excellent option and best way for combining cranberries and green tea. However, this recipe is best for those, who are planning to arrange a party. So, try out this cranberry spritzer, which will surely, please your guests.

Heat some water and put sugar into it. Stir this mixture until the dissolution of sugar completely. Put tea bags and then remove them after a few minutes; add the juice of Cranberry.

Some more instructions for green tea preparation

  • Many people want to know how to use green tea bags for weight loss. When you make use of tea bags, you have to keep it in your drink not more than 3 minutes, and it can offer you fresh tea.
  • Try to keep away from milk. Apply only leaf of green tea rather than tea bags.


These are some simple tips that are helpful for those, who like to find out how to make green tea at home for weight loss. No matter what technique you are using, you have to perform it accurately. However, remember that when you are considering the fact that green tea is able to lessen your weight, you must not believe that only a flavor of green team may work for you. For instant, bath bombs with the scent of green tea will not give any result. It is only the drink of green tea, which shows its weight loss effects.

Time to drink tea

Some experts think that teas of different categories must be sipped at various points of a day in order to get highest weight loss effects. Though drinking any kind of tea is quite good, you have to drink at the eight times to get their effectiveness. For instance, white tea that prevents the absorption, so have it before lunch. On, the other hand, green teas may also help in controlling your metabolism, and thus, it is better to have this tea mainly in the morning. The drinking time in case oolong tea is almost same as that of the green tea.

So, from the above information, you can understand green tea preparation for weight loss. If you get bored in drink green tea every day, try to look for different recipes for the same tea. It’s really a matter of fun when you add different flavors to your tea. Moreover, by adding various components to your tea, you are actually increasing the beneficial effects of the drink.

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