Kombucha: Powerful Healthy Elixir Or Just Hocus Pocus Tea?

Kombucha is fermented black or green tea. Thanks to the thick, semi-solid mat of live microorganisms that float at its surface, kombucha is also known as “mushroom tea” and enjoys a distinctive visual appeal. The mat, which can look a bit like several layers of saggy pancakes, is also known as a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY), and it’s essential to the creation of kombucha. Just like it does in beer, the yeast eats the sugars in the tea and excretes alcohol and acid. The bacteria have a symbiotic relationship with the yeast. After fermentation, the tea is …read more