Kombucha Craze

Have you heard about Kombucha tea? It’s all the rage in Hollywood, and it sounds disgusting!

There’s a new Hollywood health craze brewing – Kombucha tea. What is it? A fermented drink made from a bacteria and yeast culture and then grown into tea. To make it yourself you’d have to drop a pancake like tea fungus into a jar filled with brewed black tea and sugar and let it ferment for about a week. The fungus eventually produces a baby that rises to the surface for your next batch – yum.

They say it tastes sort of like vinegar - and it’s supposed to prevent wrinkles, cure baldness, insomnia, cancer and more. Health experts and the FDA have issued warnings about Kombucha – siting allergic reactions and bad side effects. So who’s drinking this stuff? Halle Berry, Alec Baldwin, Anna Panquin, Lindsay Lohan and Madonna.

Source: Brent A. Bauer, M.D., Mayo Clinic