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The biochemistry of human saliva can be altered by food intake. The benefits of tea drinking were extensively studied but the influence of tea ingestion on human saliva has not been revealed. The work aimed to investigate the immediate and delayed effect of vine tea, oolong tea and black tea intake on certain salivary biochemistry and flow rate. The saliva samples of healthy subjects were collected before, after and 30 min after tea ingestion. The chemical compositions and antioxidant capacity of tea samples were analyzed to correlate with salivary parameters. Principal component analysis indicated that the effects of vine tea consumption were dominated by increasing salivary flow rate (SFR), production rate of total protein (TPC), thiol (SH), malondialdehyde, catalase activity and antioxidant capacity (FRAP) in saliva. The antioxidant profile of studied tea samples (FRAP, polyphenols, flavonoids) was positively correlated with salivary SFR, TPC, SH and FRAP but negatively correlated with salivary uric acid concentration in saliva.


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Relation of Tea Ingestion to Salivary Redox and Flow Rate in Healthy Subjects

Show Author's information Pik Han ChongaQiaojuan HeaSuyun ZhangaJianwu ZhouaPingfan RaoaMin ZhangbLijing Kea( )
Zhejiang Gongshang University Joint Centre for Food and Nutrition Sciences, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Institute of Food Science, Jishou University, Jishou 416000, China

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The biochemistry of human saliva can be altered by food intake. The benefits of tea drinking were extensively studied but the influence of tea ingestion on human saliva has not been revealed. The work aimed to investigate the immediate and delayed effect of vine tea, oolong tea and black tea intake on certain salivary biochemistry and flow rate. The saliva samples of healthy subjects were collected before, after and 30 min after tea ingestion. The chemical compositions and antioxidant capacity of tea samples were analyzed to correlate with salivary parameters. Principal component analysis indicated that the effects of vine tea consumption were dominated by increasing salivary flow rate (SFR), production rate of total protein (TPC), thiol (SH), malondialdehyde, catalase activity and antioxidant capacity (FRAP) in saliva. The antioxidant profile of studied tea samples (FRAP, polyphenols, flavonoids) was positively correlated with salivary SFR, TPC, SH and FRAP but negatively correlated with salivary uric acid concentration in saliva.

Keywords: Black tea, Oolong tea, Flow rate, Salivary redox status, Vine tea

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Received: 29 October 2021
Revised: 08 January 2022
Accepted: 06 March 2022
Published: 04 April 2023
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The research was supported by The ‘Pioneer’ and ‘Leading Goose’ R&D Program of Zhejiang (2022C03138), The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0400202), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31571803). The authors gratefully thank the participants who were involved in the study.

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