kombucha
Here we will talk about kombucha tea which is made out of scoby. We will look at how it is made, we will look at the benefits of the kombucha tea, We will look at how you can ferment how at home, aka home made kombucha.
The benefits of drinking kombucha
Read here with caution as most of the benefits has not been approved scientifically.- it is a Probiotic agent
- it can prevent certain types of cancer
- it has anti inflammatory property
- act as an immunity booster
The following are ingredients for the kombucha :
- SCOBY - What is a scoby? A scoby is combination of bacteria's and yeast.
Scoby is called "mother", for those that know african beer umqombothi, scoby works like inhlese,
it is taken from the previus brewing batch. When you see a scoby you will notice that it
is very ugly, you wont like the way it looks. Good news is that everytime you brew kombucha a new
scoby will be made, it will grow as a new layer. The scoby takes roughly 1 to 4 weeks on a standard room temperature
How is the Scoby made? Let us look at the ingredients for Scoby
- You need a cloth to cover the mouth of your glass
- String or rubber band to keep the cloth on the mouth of the glass
- Glass - do not use plastic or metal, they will bring un-wanted bacteria's
- Black tea or green , you choose
- Pre-made kombucha - yes you can add a pre-made kombucha but that is optional, you need to make sure that it is not flavoured or scented.
- Dark place that is away from sunshine
- Izincazelo zamaphupho
- ukucupha isithandwa sakho
- umuthi wokubuyisa isithandwa esakushiya
- Umuthi wokususa Isichitho
- umuthi wokuba nemali
- umuthi wokuthandwa ngabantu
- umuthi wokukhipha isinyama
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