Earl Grey tea is mostly black tea with a natural flavoring made from bergamot flowers. As a source of antioxidants, black tea is nearly as good as green tea.
"In my lab, we found that green and black tea had identical amounts of polyphenols," he tells WebMD. "We found that both types of tea blocked DNA damage associated with tobacco and other toxic chemicals. In animal studies, tea-drinking rats have less cancer."
--Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, of the Friedman School of NutritionNutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
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