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Question of the month; Does Kombucha Tea really work? Answer is...It absolutely does! If it did not better health why have millions of people have kept drinking it and brewing it, for over two thousand years.

Description of Kombucha

Kombucha is a delicious tea-based beverage that is often drunk for its health benefits or medicinal reasons. There is scientific data supporting health benefits but unfortunately few studies are being conducted mainly due to the cost of such medical studies. There are several centuries of popular accounts telling of health benefits attributed to the tea. Kombucha is available commercially but can easily be made at home by fermenting tea using a solid mass of yeast and bacteria often nicknamed a SCOBY. This produces the kombucha culture which is also most commonly referred to as the "mushroom" although it is not really a mushroom. It slowly grows on the surface of the fermenting tea during the period of time the tea is fermenting and looks like a near whitish colored pancake.

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Testimonial - Energy, strength: "I am a from Africa (RWANDA)I am writting this message to thank you very much for this product. I knew it in my country, i never knew i will come across this product agian Now i find it in the health store it very good and health i wish i can tell all people about this lifetea. My testimoial is very long about this product. My country had a genocide in 1994 we had to run away and we passed many months, no food, no drink. Me and my family who had been drinking Kombucha we were very strong than any body else people were asking as the secret. So many people were dying on the road because of hunger us were strong like stone. when others are eating uneatable and poisonous food in order to survive, we were just watching them. What was the secret? the Kombucha product we had been drinking every day for more than 1 year before the war started in Rwanda. Now i find it again ohoooooo!!! My Good Lord i am going to tell whoever i know and willing to stay strong and healthy. Thank you!!! Even now i am not yet have access to brew myself i am just buying bottles from the store and it is expensive though. My goal right now is to buy a mushroom and make my own... Annon."

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 mushrooms are poisonous or they have been misinformed about Kombucha. Kombucha is not a mushroom and it is not toxic. It is only "popularly" called a mushroom.

Kombucha Tea has been used for health improvement for over 2000 years it 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 FDA has found this remarkable tea to be a safe drink if it is correctly prepared in a clean manner so as not to be contaminated by common food pathogens. All foods that you make has a risk of contamination but the risk is probably less for Kombucha as it is a fermented drink which as it ferments it produces a small amount of alcohol helping to protect it.

No one has ever 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. One thousand people a year die from taking aspirin, so which do you think is safer!

Kombucha Tea is a fermented beverage and , but some few people may be sensitive to any number of different things. A reaction is usually just a reddening of the skin or itch.

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

A Kombucha mushroom could develop a mold but this is not likely. Most common such molds are not harmful but they can spoil the taste of the tea. This minor problem can be easily prevented 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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