“…It was found that EGCG in phosphate buffer solution (PBS, pH 7.4) was completely degraded after storage at room temperature for 6 hr (Su, Leung, Huang, & Chen, ). Some metal ions, such as Fe 2+ was able to oxidize or catalyze the oxidation of EGCG by dissolved oxygen (Yasuda, Matsuda, Ohshiro, Inouye, & Tabata, ). In addition, EGCG degraded faster when the dissolved oxygen concentration (Zimeri & Tong, ) or temperature (Su et al, ; Wang, Zhou, & Wen, ) increased, and when exposed to light (Bianchi, Marchetti, & Scalia, ).…”