**5. Mechanism of action of antioxidants**

Although tea has quite an innumerable number of phenolic chemicals that contribute in isolation or in synergy. EGCG being a major antioxidative player, is instrumental in combating, inflammation, proliferation, and thrombogenesis. It also has a positive impacts on endothelial function.

Experts have surmised tea antioxidants in two ways: in the first place, EGCG breaks the oxidant chain by donating a p-electron on its benzene ring to the available free radical, and by so doing, eliminates the invasive free radicals [12]. In this instance, single electrons tend to the benzene ring, thereby reducing the activity of
