Black tea extracts (hot aqueous, polyphenols and theaflavins) and green tea extracts (hot aqueous, polyphenols, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin and epigallocatechin gallate) were tested in nine standardized cell culture assays for comparative cancer chemopreventive properties. Most black and green tea extracts strongly inhibited neoplastic transformation in mouse mammary organ cultures, rat tracheal epithelial cells and human lung tumor epithelial cells. Nearly all tea fractions strongly inhibited benzo[a]pyrene adduct formation with human DNA. Induction of phase II enzymes, glutathione-S-transferase and quinone reductase, were enhanced by nearly all tea fractions, while glutathione was induced by only a few fractions. Ornithine decarboxylase activity was inhibited by nearly all the green tea fractions, but none of the black tea fractions. 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-induced free radicals were inhibited by most tea fractions. These results provide strong evidence of both anti-mutagenic, anti-proliferative and anti-neoplastic activities for both black and green tea extracts. Such anticancer mechanisms may well be responsible for the cancer preventive efficacies seen in both experimental and human studies.
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