Kombucha tea culture?

npsmama

Just wondered if anyone had any experience with this and knew of some culture going spare?

Kazonline

If you join this groupI thinkyou'll get lots of info on it and may be able to buy a starter for the cost of p&p, or free pick up if there's someone local to you
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Fermented-foods-UK/

SusanCarter

What is it?

Stratford_Bill

You can buy it in Tescos. I forget the name, but it has a picture of a japanese monk on the label shooting one of their assymmetric longbows. As I recall it contained tea and fruit juices and was sweetened with fructose. It was perfectly drinkable, but I found it a little too sweet for my liking. The stuff they sell in Tescos is also carbonated.

pickledtink

I used to have one of these living in my kitchen. i drank it for about a year but in the end found it too much of a bind to keep going and it gets very bitter the longer you leave it.
Can't say I remember any appreciable benefits but certainly do try it. Everyone's different after all.
As to the Kumbucha tea you buy in Supermarkets I can't see it having any of the properties of the 'live' culture. As pointless as buying dead yoghurt to be honest.

Stratford_Bill

I have remembered the name of the patent kombucha: it is CARPE DIEM.

Stratford_Bill

And here's some more great news for kombucha lovers.

Next week, Lidl are selling kombucha for only 89p a carton.

Thanks to Lidl we will all soon be living richer, more fulfilled lives.

lydia29

Hi all, iv been reading your posts and thought id join in.

I have been brewing kombucha for a couple of years now and i have a few kombucha mushrooms to give away if anyone would like one? Collect in person or just pay for postage and theyre yours lol. if you need instructions i can send them with the mushroom too.

please email me if your interested.

p.s homemade kombucha is far better than the stuff they sell in Lidl as iv tried theirs and it has lots of additives in it.;)

jumblejack

Bumpety bump.

I'm mega interested in this as my health shop was trying to get me to buy the premade drinks for my mum.

Would rather make my own but worried about the sugar content as sugar feeds cancer (cancer cells need 15x more glucose than healthy cells)

jumblejack

Just read that adding pineapple juice in place of sugar can work????

Anyone tried this?

larmy16

There is so much information about Kombucha that it can make you confused.

From what I have read, the original tea must be made with bog standard sugar (the one we are all supposed to stop using) as the culture thrives in it and tends to die off in other sweeteners like honey, fruit etc.

You can add the pineapple to the second ferment though.

I have been making it for some time now and love it. As it happens I went to Argos today to get a stock pot so I could make even more of it.

As I have a few scobies now I am experimenting with it and have one in some apple juice in an attempt to make cider!

I happen to love it and start every day with a small glass.