茶叶是中国人和东方亚洲人的传统饮料,也是当今世界著名的三大饮料之一。由于茶叶在防病保健食品中具有独特的功用,因此有专家预言,茶叶将成为21世纪的饮料之王。 茶叶的防病保健作用要首推其在防癌、抗癌中的广泛应用。在这方面,中国的科学工作者做了大量工作。他们曾采用遗传毒理学原理,建立了一系列方法,对多种天然抗致突变 Tea is a traditional beverage for Chinese and Oriental Asians, and it is also one of the three major beverages in the world today. Because tea has a unique function in disease prevention and health food, some experts predict that tea will become the king of beverages in the 21st century. Tea’s disease-prevention and health care effects must be firstly applied in the anti-cancer and anti-cancer applications. In this regard, Chinese scientists have done a lot of work. They have used genetic toxicological principles and established a series of methods for a variety of natural anti-mutagenic