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Question of the month; Does Kombucha really work? Answer is...Yes! If it did not better health why have millions of people have kept drinking it and making it, for over 2000 years.

What is Kombucha

Kombucha is a invigorating tea-based drink that millions drink for its health benefits or medicinal purposes. There is scientific data supporting health benefits but unfortunately few studies or have been conducted mainly due to the expense of such studies. There are many centuries of anecdotal accounts supporting health benefits attributed to the tea. Kombucha is sold commercially but can easily be prepared by fermenting tea using a spongy mass of yeast and bacteria often nicknamed a SCOBY. This produces the kombucha culture which is also most commonly referred to as the "mushroom" but it is not really a mushroom. It grows on the surface of the tea while the tea is fermenting and looks like a whitish colored pancake.

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Testimonial - Vitality, Hair, Skin, Digestion: "OK. First let me tell you that I'm very grateful for your willingness to talk on the phone. When I first started the culture with the cultures you sent I wasn't expecting the variety of life forms I was going to see in the fermented tea, so I called you somehow startled and described what was going on. You very gently explained that everything was ok ... and it was!

I just can't believe it was barely over one year ago that I started kombucha, it seems to me that I've been drinking it for my whole life, which shows that I am planning to drink it for the rest of my life.

The benefits frankly cannot be described properly. It's a general well being, a recovering of the vital strength (last year, 6 months before starting kombucha I underwent a severe surgical operation and was in a state of exhaustion). It is the sudden and quick stopping of my hair loss that had been prompted by the operation and all the ensuing stress. My hair is beautiful. My skin is strong and nice. At 62 my joints are just fine, thank you. I have a better digestion. But all of this doesn't describe this feeling I have, that I owe kombucha my life. It sounds exaggerated, but I do know how I felt and how I feel.

I drink kombucha with and or after lunch and dinner. And whenever it pleases me because it's just delightful, its sweet-sour taste. Half a tall glass is more than enough twice daily... R.M."

Additional Reference Material:

What is Kombucha - Seeds of Health Web Site
The Fascination of Kombucha by Günther W. Frank
What is Kombucha - Wise Geek Web Site
Yahoo Sports Article on Kombucha
Health Benefits - GoKombucha Web Site
More Kombucha Info - Probiotics-Help Web Site
Making Kombucha Tea - Wikihow Web Site
Kombucha Info - About.com Web Site
Kombucha - Health properties - eHow Web Site
Antimicrobial Antioxidant Activity of Kombucha

Kombucha Tea safe?

Most ask this question because they have heard that some fungi are poisonous or they have been told misinformation about Kombucha. Kombucha is not a mushroom and it is not toxic. It is only "popularly" called a mushroom.

Kombucha has been used for health improvement for thousands of years and is now being sold in food and health in the U.S., far less expensive to make it yourself.

The tea does improve health but it is not a drug. The F.D.A. has found Kombucha Tea to be a safe beverage provided it is correctly prepared in a clean way so as not to become contaminated by pathogens. All foods that you prepare has a risk of contamination but the risk is probably less for Kombucha because it is a fermented drink which as it ferments it produces a small amount of alcohol which protects the tea from obnoxious pathogens.

Nobody has died from drinking properly made Kombucha Tea and yet millions of people daily drink this remarkable beverage and have done so for thousands of years. It is safer than aspirin. There are 1000 aspirin related aspirin deaths yearly.

Kombucha Tea is a fermented beverage and , but then again some few people could be sensitive to any number of different things. An allergic is usually just a reddening of the skin or a minor.

The tea is acidic but no more so than wine, orange juice, or grapefruit juice, unless it is permitted to ferment too long then it becomes more acidic. Drinking Kombucha Tea cannot change the pH level of your blood unless you drink large quantities of the tea when it is very sour, this would be foolish to do, drinking very large quantities of anything is usually not a wise thing to do.

A Kombucha mushroom could develop a mold but this is not likely. Most common household food molds are not harmful but they can ruin the taste of the tea. This small problem can be easily avoided by keeping the fermenting tea properly covered and if it should occur is easily detected and you simple make a new batch of tea."]

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