Fit Tea is a strong tea blend for detoxification. It contains naturally derived ingredients, with vitamins, ECGC, and antioxidants. This tea has a boost of organic caffeine in a citrus taste. Does the company claim this tea is the healthiest for lifestyle improvements but does fit tea work? The organic leaves of green tea used in making this tea, give it its soothing and fresh fragrance, and it also contains the L-Theanine amino acid. Oolong Wu Yi is also used in its making, and it helps in oxidation. This particular ingredient was used by the Chinese in making their traditional tea and it also contains caffeine, niacin, potassium, and manganese.
Fit Tea is also made with the extract from Garcinia Cambogia grown in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia which contains hydroxy citric acid. This extract increases serotonin levels, reduces cravings, and suppresses appetite. Pomegranate is another of its ingredients that add to its delicious taste. It also has high antioxidants, potassium, and vitamin C, E, K. Fit tea also contains ginger, a bioactive compound that acts as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound. Ginger may also help in reducing indigestion. Last but not least the main ingredient is organic rooibos which is sourced from South Africa. It has a delicate, earthy, and sweet flavor. Rooibos also contains quercetin with its various nutritional benefits.
Does Fit Tea Work?
Fit tea is one amongst many other professing detox tea swarming the market today. Yes, it may have an impressive ingredient profile but most of the rest also have such profiles so how do we know which is genuine.
The company behind fit tea claims that it is a detoxifying product that enhances its consumer weight management plan working alongside an exercise regimen and healthy dieting. This tea combines herbs, diuretic, and caffeinated ingredients that have several effects. These includes:
- Green tea (organic): Green tea has some amount of caffeine that helps in suppressing appetite and springs your step.
- Oolong wu Yi: This also contains some caffeine that makes you feel alert. It may exhibit a diuretic effect making you pee frequently.
- Extract of Garcinia Cambogia: Another name for this is Malabar tamarind which contains hydroxy citric acid. This has claimed to be a fat burner, but there is no significant supporting evidence to this effect.
- Pomegranate: Pomegranate is made up of chemicals that act as antioxidants and help in fighting cancer and atherosclerosis. But it is unknown if the liquid form of pomegranate is effective in such a manner.
- Organic rooibos: Here is a tea from Africa that means red bush. It has no caffeine and valuable antioxidants that protect against diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
- Ginger: Ginger acts as a laxative that stimulates one’s bowel that may be effective in relieving diarrhea, gas, and upset stomach. Ginger may also be able to stimulate one’s appetite which counteracts to fit teas other ingredients which decreases appetite.
- Stevia: Stevia can be used as an alternative to sugar gotten from Stevia rebaudiana species. This contains active compound steviol glycoside that is thirty to one hundred and fifty times sweeter than the regular sugar.
- Honey: Some detoxifying tea uses this to sweeten its products. Honey comes with different qualities, it is unknown what quality fit tea uses.
- Guarana: Guarana possesses stimulants for the CNS like theobromine, theophylline, and caffeine. It acts like a yerba mate which increases blood pressure and heart rate.
- Citric acid: Found in fruits like oranges and lemons, this acid often serves as preservatives.
- Sea salt: Also known as sodium chloride, this also serves as a preservative because it repels bacteria and absorbs water.
Clinical Studies On Fit Tea
As far as we know, there are no independent studies on Fit Tea in particular. There is a brief write up on company-sponsored research on this Fit Tea. If there are publications about this in any reputable journal it will be better but in the absence of that other research is junk.
Well here is how the sponsored research goes. There were fifty participants used in this study, they were between the ages of eighteen and sixty years. That non-experimental research aimed at looking at how to fit tea was effective in aiding weight loss and increasing concentrating levels, decreasing appetite, and increasing energy levels.
The participants were physically examined on their height, weight, level of thyroid-stimulating hormones, complete blood count, lipid and metabolic levels, body composition.
The result of the study showed that fifty percent (twenty-five) of the participants lost 0.23kg of weight within fourteen days and sixty percent (thirty-three) lost 0.91kg within the twenty-eight-day period. Twenty-five of the thirty-three participants lost 1.36kg and the other fourteen lost 2.26kg by the time the study ended.
The study also found that 43 of the 50 participants experienced increased levels of energy. forty-two of the fifty also increased levels of concentration and forty-seven participants experienced decreased appetite.
Side Effects
12 participants of this study complained of the following side effects; bloating, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, vomiting, nausea, headache, diarrhea, and others undefined.
However, we want to emphasize that these studies have several limitations. First, it had no control group for result comparison. While the researchers reported weight loss amongst the participants we do not know how this outcome would compare to gender and age-related control groups. Second, it was a limited lack of accountability for the activity and exercise level. We were not told if the study controlled levels of participants’ activities. Other limitations include lack of accountability for diet, most of its participants were females, wide age gap, no body weight changes explanation, no mentioned results on the blood biomarker, and unclear result images on the page.
Does fit tea work? With the information gathered we may not be able to say an absolute yes or an absolute no as several people may have seen some positive results from using this tea.