
KOMBUCHA ("com-boo-cha") tea is an infusion of
green
tea, black tea and sugar metabolised by the Kombucha culture:
a continuously reproducing, symbiotic colony of friendly bacteria
and fission yeasts which are free of the spores some people,
particularly women, are allergic to, and which can help alleviate rather than aggravate conditions like candida.
Over the course of several days - in a chemical reaction similar to how yeast reacts with complex sugars during the brewing of beer - the Kombucha culture digests most of the sugar, breaking it down and converting it into a potent force of organic probiotic acids, enzymes, minerals and vitamins C, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12 and B15.
Kombucha tea is also acclaimed for its anti-aging properties among older users and as a weight loss agent, and is even used by some cosmetics companies in their products to help improve complexion, skin tone, soften wrinkles and restore hair thickness and colour.
As trade routes expanded beyond the Far East, Kombucha spread via travellers and traders to India, Russia and Eastern Europe, arriving in Germany around the turn of the 20th Century. Kombucha tea was soon being enjoyed throughout Europe until World War II broke out and, with it, the rationing of the two essential ingredients for metabolising Kombucha: tea and sugar. By the early 1960s, Kombucha's popularity started to take off again.
Today, Kombucha tea is experiencing a further phenomenal resurgence
of popularity worldwide, not least among the Hollywood jet set.
Madonna and Hollywood stars Cher, Barbra
Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and Meg Ryan all profess
to enjoying the ‘wonder drink’. Now Gaia’s Organic Kombucha (formerly Gourmet Kombucha) enables
you to experience truly authentic, handmade Kombucha tea, just as the
Chinese Emperors enjoyed it in times gone by.
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