An effervescent, fizzy drink, Kombucha Tea serves as a functional food, meaning it helps promote certain health benefits or prevents certain diseases from occurring. Unfortunately, like any good health product, there are greedy individuals out there looking to prey on people with health concerns. These greedy individuals and companies provide other forms of Kombucha that simply do not work and are marketed as the cheaper, and unbelievably, more convenient option over brewing Kombucha Tea the traditional way. Some of these products aren't even cheap but are marketed on the supposed convenience option targeting people ignorant about Kombucha so that they end up paying higher prices.
Only in the recent years has Kombucha Tea started to be bottled commercially and by most, including this author, it is considered to be a good product. However, the commercially bottled tea often sells upwards to four dollars, per bottle! This is eight times the cost of what it would cost for you to easily home brew this remarkable beverage; as has traditionally been done for thousands of years.
Commercially bottled unpasteurized Kombucha is often more carbonated and that is not a health benefit. Further still, if bottled and stored too long before being sold the raw tea often tastes too sour or acidic because the living pro-biotic bacteria and yeast of Kombucha continue the fermentation of the tea even in the bottle. The longer it is left to ferment the sourer or acidic it becomes. Some commercial brewers of Kombucha will sell a pasteurized tea to overcome this problem but once pasteurized most pro-biotic benefits to drinking the tea are destroyed.
Only in the recent years has Kombucha Tea started to be bottled commercially and by most, including this author, it is considered to be a good product. However, the commercially bottled tea often sells upwards to four dollars, per bottle! This is eight times the cost of what it would cost for you to easily home brew this remarkable beverage; as has traditionally been done for thousands of years.
Commercially bottled unpasteurized Kombucha is often more carbonated and that is not a health benefit. Further still, if bottled and stored too long before being sold the raw tea often tastes too sour or acidic because the living pro-biotic bacteria and yeast of Kombucha continue the fermentation of the tea even in the bottle. The longer it is left to ferment the sourer or acidic it becomes. Some commercial brewers of Kombucha will sell a pasteurized tea to overcome this problem but once pasteurized most pro-biotic benefits to drinking the tea are destroyed.
