"Green tea extract is able to reduce oxidation, but if taken together with other nutritional supplements or medicines it can cancel out their effects. It's like what practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine say, 'Mung beans can cancel out the effects of medicine, and so shouldn't be taken together with medicine,'" says Kao Chi-chen, director of the business department of Chang Gung Biotechnology Company.
「綠茶素具有氧化還原效果，和其他保健食品或藥物一起吃，會把它們的功效綜合掉，有點類似中醫所說的『綠豆會解藥效，不能和藥一起吃』一樣，」長庚生物科技營業處長高啟震說。