Green Tea Powder

Trying to do some math, came up with something like 1gr of Green Tea Extract being the equivalent to around 17 cups of the drinkable kind, in terms of catechins content. Am I way off?

Thanks.


P.S. Congrats on the great forum.

Actually, from the extracts I've seen (although I've only looked @ two, so take that for what it's worth), it seems that 1g of extract is only equivalent to about five cups of tea in terms of polyphenol & catechin content...

Here's the link to the official "Green Tea" thread on Avant....

http://forum.avantlabs.com/?act=ST&f=1&t=3799

and here's my post in reply to Spook's recommended beneficial dosage and Dante's findings...

I read somewhere that each cup is 100 mg EGCG.. in any case, even with 50 mg that would make 1 gram of the extract about the same as 4 cups... for 600 mg/day you'd need 3 grams. I take 1000 mg EGCG daily...

Ted, thanks for the link.

I got some, and I've been capping it myself, can usually get around 350-400mgs in each OO gelatin cap.

Read that Spook recommended ~600mg/day of EGCG for fat loss. That would be almost 3.3grs per day of GT Extract or like Ted said, 15 cups.

Not all cups of green tea are alike. If you boil loose leaves you get a very concentrated solution that is significantly more yellow and cloudy than if you put a tea bag in hot water.

The most I've ever consumed at one time was 6-8 cups of really concentrated green tea. It made me a bit naseus, and noticeably changed my mental state. I havent tried any extracts yet.