Analyzing 588 publications from 2000 to 2023 utilizing CiteSpace, researchers uncovered a gradual rise in international curiosity, with antioxidant exercise, phenolic compounds, and fruit tea recognized as key areas of focus. Whereas China and the USA led in analysis output, collaboration throughout nations and establishments stays underdeveloped.
Natural tea, a standard beverage brewed from plant components resembling leaves, roots, and flowers, has lengthy been valued for its twin medicinal and dietary capabilities. Used throughout cultures to alleviate illnesses, increase immunity, and promote common well-being, natural tea displays a variety of bioactive properties—together with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial results. In China alone, it’s related to 30 distinct well being advantages. With elevated international curiosity in plant-based and purposeful meals, natural tea has emerged as a promising space of examine. Nonetheless, the huge variety of natural teas and their advanced phytochemical compositions necessitate coordinated analysis efforts to make clear their security, efficacy, and mechanisms of motion.
A study (DOI: 10.48130/bpr-0023-0040) printed in Beverage Plant Research on 20 February 2024 by Qiang Yuan & Juzhao Liu’s staff, Zhejiang Chinese language Medical College, highlights the rising scientific consideration towards natural tea’s well being advantages and pharmacological properties.
To discover the evolution and panorama of world natural tea analysis, an evaluation was carried out utilizing CiteSpace on 588 publications from 2000 to 2023. The examine examined developments in publication quantity, co-authorship patterns, nationwide and institutional collaboration, key phrase clustering, and co-citation networks. The evaluation revealed a transparent upward trajectory in natural tea analysis output, with three developmental phases: a modest preliminary stage (2003–2007), a interval of unstable development (2008–2017), and a part of speedy growth (2018–2022). China emerged because the dominant contributor, each in quantity and centrality, adopted by the USA, Italy, Poland, and Malaysia. Nonetheless, cross-national and institutional collaboration stays restricted, with notable exceptions just like the strong staff led by South African researcher Joubert E. A co-authorship community comprising 240 authors confirmed that sustained collaboration was uncommon, though rising groups are starting to type. The institutional evaluation revealed that whereas Chinese language establishments are well-connected domestically, worldwide collaboration is comparatively weak. Key phrase evaluation confirmed that antioxidant exercise, phenolic compounds (particularly flavonoids), and rising areas like fruit tea and Cyclopia spp. are analysis hotspots. Burst key phrase and timeline mapping additional confirmed “chemical composition” as a current point of interest. Extremely cited works give attention to pharmacological results and security, reflecting rising concern for regulatory requirements. The examine additionally cataloged 107 Chinese language medicinal herbs utilized in natural teas, figuring out roots, seeds, and flowers as essentially the most generally used plant components. Moreover, security considerations—resembling liver and kidney toxicity, contamination, and dosage—spotlight the necessity for stricter regulation. Regulatory frameworks differ broadly throughout nations, with the EU, US, China, and Japan every using distinct methods. Total, the findings underscore the significance of deepening worldwide collaboration, enhancing regulatory oversight, and increasing analysis into each well being advantages and security of natural teas to assist their secure and efficient international use.
Natural tea’s therapeutic potential—significantly its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic advantages—positions it as a priceless software in managing continual illnesses like hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. This examine gives researchers a roadmap to know the place the sphere is heading and what gaps stay. By pinpointing high-impact authors, themes, and compounds, it offers a springboard for deeper mechanistic research, product growth, and medical trials. On the similar time, security considerations—starting from extreme consumption to hint aspect contamination—spotlight the pressing want for regulatory oversight.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial assist from China Postdoctoral Science Basis (2021M692893, 2021M702927), Nationwide Pure Science Fund of China (82204552), Pure Science Basis of Zhejiang Province (LQ22H280007), Analysis Challenge of Zhejiang Chinese language Medical College (2022JKZKTS10), Zhejiang Province Conventional Chinese language Drugs Science and Know-how (2023ZR079, 2023ZR087).
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Beverage Plant Research (e-ISSN 2769-2108) is the official journal of Tea Analysis Institute, Chinese language Academy of Agricultural Sciences and China Tea Science Society. Beverage Plant Analysis is an open entry, online-only journal printed by Most Tutorial Press which publishing authentic analysis, strategies, critiques, editorials, and views, which advance the biology, chemistry, processing, and well being capabilities of tea and different essential beverage vegetation.
