Type in any search engine request for "a drink of tea tree" and you get a lot of information from his guidelines for the production of up to rave reviews, according to which the drink cures diabetes, asthma, arthritis, menstrual cramps, constipation and cancer. At the same time it helps to lose weight, uluchaet skin and makes hair Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development   thicker. Someone claims that this drink is mentioned in the Bible, someone - it helps Tibetan monks live up to a hundred years. Lindsay Lohan was spotted with a bottle of this drink during the period of rehabilitation.

The drink of tea fungus - sweet and sour, tart, crisp, reminiscent of something that is served in the fairy tales, poured into cups and called "Elixir".

Most people, after the first trial found the drink disgusting, but then realize its peculiar charm - as it happens, for example, whiskey.

The story of

The story of the beverage as dark as he is - but it is not so clear. Probably, he appeared in the East Asia, and slowly moved to the west, causing a brief flash of popularity in Russia and in the late 19th century, and then became one of the favorite drinks of hippies Hippie style: create your own world   in America. Until recently, it remained only drink homemade. In 1995 came an official warning FDA, which said that the Kombucha beverage is not approved as a drug, and that it should be prepared in very good sanitary conditions. (From the point of view of doctors and officials responsible for public health, the same warning may also apply, for example, to the grandmother's raspberry jam, which many successfully treat the common cold).

Useful Is Kombucha?

Benefits of Kombucha to date has no evidence. The corresponding online inquiry gives you over 600,000 results, but among them there is no report on the scientific study of the action of the Kombucha drink per person. This is not surprising, because such studies cost millions of dollars, and usually they pay pharmaceutical companies for the study of drugs they produce.

Some experts believe that it overestimated the virtues, and some useful properties, which he has rather refer to tea, and not to the Kombucha Kombucha: the elixir of immortality .

However, beverage Kombucha now produce on an industrial scale, and it takes a prominent position among such products on the market healthy foods like fortified sodas and yogurt with probiotics. In June 2007, the drink was sold in the amount of 37 million dollars (of course, a trifle compared with 6 billion - the achievement of Coca-Cola, but still very good). Different brands of this drink is widely advertised; It is included in the menu luxury cafés and restaurants, it is used as an ingredient in a variety of cocktails. It is always interesting to see how the product becomes the new home-made consumer fad.

And from a new hobby, he again turns into a self-made, homemade drink. The kitchens come back banks with a dark liquid, which floats something, at first glance, strange - the same colony of bacteria and yeast, which ferments sweet tea. Maybe, in fact, this drink and did not help prevent cancer and a dozen diseases, but at least it will give pleasure to those who appreciate it. It can be an excellent substitute for a latte from Starbucks: low-cost, home, original, and much more memorable.

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