Is green tea weight loss just the latest trendy drink

It’s both old and new. Old in the sense that tea has been around for millennia, and new in the attention it’s enjoying from people interested in food and food trends - especially the green tea weight loss one.

For trendy it is. Drinking green tea swept in on the heels of a boomlet in drinking black tea - and that followed hard behind the boom in coffee and specialty coffees of the past six to eight years.

Food companies have brought out packaged green tea in bags over the past couple of years. There are plain, flavored (lemon, peach, mint) and even with antioxidants - this last being kind of redundant, because tea is naturally full of polyphenol compounds that are mighty good antioxidants with cancer-fighting properties.