A new study from England has found that adding milk to black tea reduces its antioxidant potential from 7 to 25 percent, with skim milk as the worst offender. “The degree to which the addition of milk reduces the antioxidant capacity of black tea depends on the amount added and the fat content of the milk,” report Lisa Ryan and Sebastien Petit from the Functional Food Center at Oxford Brookes University.

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