ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF GREEN TEA- A REVIEW

Family of Camellia sinensis (Green tea) is Theaceae. Camellia sinensis is famous because of its more beneficial for health and consist of anti-oxidant, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities and also helps in weight loss. Green tea was admitted by China’s people as powerful customary drink needed for the protection opposed to numerous health issues. The effectiveness of green tea is due to the fact that it contains a number of complex chemicals, which comprises of different classes of chemical compounds, such as amino acids, proteins, alkaloids, minerals, vitamins, polyphenols, etc. So, it is consumed worldwide as it has a number or health benefits. Thus, in this review article, green tea was selected for stressing on its advantages in various medicinal fields and phytoconstituents and recent researches that are done for its quality checking which assures its use in medicinal and pharmaceutical manufacturing. More research is needed to be done to know its other biological activities, active constituents, cheaper and simpler methods for its quality assurance that assures the prevention of its adulteration.