Kombucha

(Mary šŸŒ¹ ) #21

I cut up 1 Napa cabbage. I cut up 3 bunches of green onion. I cut up 1 yellow onion. I cut up 1 Daikon Radish. I cut up 3 inches ginger.
I cut up 10 clove garlic pieces. I boiled 1 cup of pure water and added 1 Tablespoon of Organic Sugar and 1 Tablespoon Sweet Rice flour. I added 1/2 cup of Red Pepper Powder. This made a Paste. I combined the ginger, garlic, and the Paste. I stirred this into the cabbage and all the cut-up vegetables. I firmly packed jars and I lightly put on the lids. I burped the lids occasionally to let out gasses and the liquid that rose. 2 days (48 hours) on the counter. Its done usually. I would recommend watching u-tube videos first like I did.

(Jennifer) #22

Awesome, thank you! Iā€™ll look up a few videos before I attempt it!

#23

Saurkraut and Kimchi. My understanding is that probiotics are actually less benefiicial than fermented foods. Iā€™m surprised you canā€™t get a low carb Kombucha.

(Tsering M) #24

The standard recipe for kombucha is 1 cup of sugar for a gallon of tea - it seems you can reduce it by 1/4th but the scoby will do better with a full cup, from what I understand.

I brew mine for an extended duration in the hope that the sugar content is reduced to the minimum possible (by how much, I will hopefully find out once I get a hydrometer).

(Jessika Nilsson) #25

Thank you :slight_smile: Now I just need to get myself a hydrometer, to find out the sugar content of my kombucha :wink:

(Tsering M) #26

Soil probiotics: we could also get probiotics into our system by working with soil - gardening bare handed, for example, & getting the soil under our fingernails. Different variant of probiotics - usually very expensive if you buy this type of probiotics in a bottle.

I have a serious worm phobia. I am looking into having soil indoors for me to play with - looking into whether it will develop worms eventually.

Some people shower less often to retain skin probiotics - I am one of them.

#27

probiotic supplements are completely unnecessary for most people if you feed the gut with some fermentable vegetable manner and donā€™t eat a SAD diet.

(Tsering M) #28

And/or kombucha? Perhaps few times a week. Plus ACV as a prebiotic.

We donā€™t get ACV here - I successfully fermented my first batch of ACV.

& also ginger vinegar (which was sort of an accident - it probably doesnā€™t have probiotics though; I let my ginger bug go to alcohol, then vinegar).

(Tsering M) #29

I can imagine the probiotics supplements to be useful while traveling and also during & after an antibiotics treatment - to take ā€œduringā€, there is a yeast variant (S. Boulardi, I believe).

(Tsering M) #30

EDIT: Looked around; seems, since this one is for heavy liquid, it is not what I am looking for
(Image: Amazon India).

Will this kind of hydrometer work to measure residual sugar content in kombucha?

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#31

If you are wanting to purchase something similar to Kombucha, Kevita make a a few water kefir drinks that are low carb. I think 2 carbs a bottle. Lemon Cayenne and the Hibuscus flavor.

(Mary šŸŒ¹ ) #32

Yesā€¦I can tell when its readyā€¦my kitchen has a STRONG Kombucha smell.:+1:I wait as long as I canā€¦I want the sugar to be Gone.

(Mary šŸŒ¹ ) #33

I have really noticed a healing in my GUTā€¦since I started Kombucha

#34

Well done. Though Iā€™m pretty sure Kampuchea is the old name for Cambodia and the word youā€™re looking for is Kombucha. My guess is that your spell check is living in the past. :smile:

(Mary šŸŒ¹ ) #35

:open_mouth::persevere::blush:I must have been too tiredā€¦to noticeā€¦L O Lā€¦THANKSā€‹:+1::smile:

#36

I have a ton in the fridge and more ready to bottle. I love :heart: my homemade kombucha. Iā€™m dying to drink some but Iā€™m afraid of how many carbs oand sugar is left in it. I do my first ferment for 2 weeks. . Then 2nd ferment with a 1/4 cup Santa Cruz Naturals Rasberry Lemonade than add about 1/8 -1/4 cup of frozen marionberries and a pinch of lavender in a tall gross hot style bottle. Let that ferment for a week and remove berries and lavender. I think that is what I miss the most. Iā€™m sure a shot glass size would be okay. I donā€™t know though. Iā€™m using it now to barter for eggs.

(jketoscribe) #37

You could try checking blood sugar after drinking kombucha to see if it has much impact. With such long fermentation times, it may have little or no residual sugars.

#38

Lovely! Do you have a recipe to share ? :smiley:

(Tsering M) #39

For kombucha recipe, you could visit r/kombucha on Reddit. You will see the master kombucha recipe on the front page.

(Tsering M) #40

Sugar = sucrose + fructose

Fructose takes a very long time to break down, I believe - it will probably remain even after long fermentation.