If you like to sip a cup of green tea with toast or a bagel, you’re doing your blood sugar good. Research now shows that you can avoid blood sugar spikes (and the dragged out feeling that it leaves behind) when you consume the natural chemicals in green tea with starchy foods.

In a lab study, scientists found that epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), an antioxidant found in green tea, can reduce shifts in blood sugar (blood glucose) levels….