Kombucha hot?

I bought kombucha tea bags and the instructions say to put in boiling water. Did I buy the right kind? I thought kombucha was meant to be used as a cold drink. I wonder if I can just dip this in cold water or is that not the intent of this tea bag?

cppoly - I agree with you, any amount of boiling water should, in theory, kill off most of the beneficial bacteria in the Kombucha. However, here is a great article on Kombucha tea. Apparently, it may not be the living, beneficial bacteria in Kombucha, but the acetic acid content of the tea itself that inhibits the bad bacteria from growing.

http://happyherbalist.com/analysis_of_kt_cornell.htm

Anyway, its rather unfortunate that Kombucha was not shown to inhibit the Candida, but its still good stuff!

Yeah, without the acid explanation, it doesnt make much sense to me. Isnt this the whole reason you refrigerate your probiotics? =)

You can make your own by ordering the starter. www.culturesforhealth.com/starter-cultures/kombucha.html .

Natural foods stores is one place to look for it ready made bottles of it. Some of those have more sugar added for taste, which isn't good for bacterial infections. There have been discussions on here about it. You can do a search on "kombucha lyme" to find them. Some advise against it and suggest kefir instead, but I don't recall the reason for avoiding it. You can also make kefir with starter from the same company.