THE COMPARISON OF POSTPRANDIAL TRIGLYCERIDE LEVELS AFTER CONSUMPTION OF WHITE TEA OR GREEN TEA IN BORDERLINE HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA SUBJECTS

Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the comparison effect of consumption high fat diet with white tea or green tea on post prandial serum triglyceride level. Study design: This study was clinical trial, random allocation, cross over and double blind. Methodology: We included twenty-three hypertriglyceridemia borderline subjects to completed this study. Each subject got twice treatment, which are consumption high fat diet with white tea or green tea. This treatment held in two days with three days for wash out period. Data obtained include subject characteristics, dietary assessment of energy and fat intake, fasting and post prandial serum triglyceride levels. Results: The mean age of subject is 32.96 ± 8.04 years with a mean BMI of subject is 26.23 ± 3.62 kg/m2, categorized in overweight and obese. Fasting serum triglyceride level didn’t show significantly different (P=.079). The result from post prandial serum triglyceride levels from white tea group were significantly lower (231.43 ± 76.49 mg/dL, P=.024) than green tea group (273.61 ± 117.90 mg/dL). Conclusion: Consumption of white tea within 30 minutes of brewing time with the same dose, temperature and brewing time in subjects after a high-fat food intake resulted in lower post prandial triglyceride levels compared to green tea.