Functional sweet tea in China: species, sweet components and anti-metabolic disease effects (opens in new tab)

Functional sweet tea refers to tea beverages with health benefits and sweetness made from natural sweet plants, which has shown a promising potential for the prevention and treatment of various chronic metabolic diseases. However, no comprehensive catalogs of sweet tea have been reported, and the systematic synthesis of their species, distribution, life forms, and health benefits is lacking. In this review, we firstly define scientific concept functional sweet tea, referred to tea beverages w...