Saturday, June 02, 2007

Kombucha Nutrition Facts

I found nutrition information online, through a company that sells bottled kombucha. His claim is that there are 30 calories per 8 oz serving, as well as about 20% of the recommended daily allowance of B vitamins. As for probiotics, a half-pint of kombucha also provides about over a billion living organisms. Because it is a raw food, it's also loaded with enzymes. Raw kombucha also has organic acids and amino acids, but I haven't read enough about health to know what those are or why they're supposed to be good for you.

Kombucha is a liver detoxifier. That's why sometimes you see claims that it can be a "wonder cure." If your body is overworked with too many toxins, too many allergens, too many illnesses or sicknesses in the past, or whatever, it just can't handle all the garbage we throw at ourselves these days. So some people end up with allergies or asthma, some people end up with rashes, some people end up depressed, some people end up with compromised immune systems or fibromyalgia or reflux or any number of other ailments. Kombucha is not a medicine to cure any of these things. But if it helps clean out the gunk, that enables your body to more easily fight the things that drag it down.

Edit a year later: the page previously linked to has disappeared out of cyber-world. I linked instead to another of my posts referring to a couple of alternate pages, even though they aren't as clear and helpful as the previous link used to be.

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