Kombucha at home. Application in childhood
Anyone who was born in Soviet times knows such a thing as kombucha. At that time, it was widespread, and was present in the kitchen in almost every family. This drink is an infusion of tea, saturated with useful substances, somewhat reminiscent of the taste of kvass.
However, now it is a rarity to meet kombucha, because there is such a wide variety of different drinks on store shelves. But still, there are those who today want to cook and breed such a useful product at home - following the trend of nostalgia, or out of interest.
There is enough video on this subject now. And we offer you a simple recipe with a photo, in which we will tell you step by step how to grow kombucha from scratch at home.
Kombucha cultivation scheme
It is not difficult to grow a tea jellyfish, the main thing is to follow a number of rules and be patient.
If you go into history, then such a mushroom formed in a forgotten cup of tea, and it is on this principle that we suggest you prepare a sweet and sour drink.
For cooking, we need only leaf tea, granulated sugar, a glass container and water.
First, prepare a clean jar (at first, a liter jar is quite suitable) and pour sweet tea into it with the following proportions: add no more than 2 tablespoons of sugar to 1 liter of medium-strength tea leaves, mix. Cover everything with a lid and leave for a while in a place where direct sunlight does not fall.
Important: give preference to leaf tea leaves, rather than tea bags, and be sure to strain it to avoid tea leaves getting into the drink.
After you need to insist the tea leaves. But at this stage, you should pay attention to one feature - after a few days, a cloudy film should form on the surface. This serves as a signal that the process has begun, and now you can forget about the jellyfish for at least 60 days.
Advice: do not fill the jar with tea leaves to the very brim, the fungus needs air for normal life. Therefore, fill the container with liquid only 2/3.
Over time, a layered organism is formed, which requires proper care.
The first thing to do is move it to a larger container. But so that the jellyfish does not lose its beneficial properties, you need to know how to prepare tea leaves for a 3 liter jar. To do this, you will need 2.5 liters of water, 100 grams of sugar (per 1 liter) and 3 teaspoons of tea leaves. From these components you need to make a weak infusion, cool and pour into a jar.
When the habitat for the fungus is ready, you can shift it to a permanent “residence”, before gently rinsing it under a light stream of warm water.
From above, be sure to cover the neck with gauze in several layers - to prevent midges from getting into the drink.
It is best to store kombucha in the kitchen, where at the same time it is light, but there is no direct sunlight on the product. The term of such infusion is no more than a month, because after this time vinegar begins to form.
Advice: in no case should sugar be poured directly into a jar with the body, otherwise the fungus may “get sick”, getting burned.
You can grow a tea jellyfish until it reaches a thickness of 4-5 centimeters, carefully stratifying the body into several parts. If you put a new medusomycete in a jar, and it began to settle to the bottom, don't be alarmed - you made a mistake when making tea leaves. In order to correct the situation, simply replace the solution with a new one.
The recipe for the drink "Kombucha" for a 3-liter jar
The grown jellyfish can be used to create the most useful medicinal drink.
1Advice: if you use a bagged analogue instead of leaf tea, then increase the number to four bags.
Diets and healthy eating 21.02.2018
Dear readers, when it comes to kombucha, many people remember their childhood. There were times when this mushroom was present in almost every home. Both children and adults drank it with pleasure. But they didn’t really know how useful kombucha was - it was just so fashionable, or something. What house you don’t come to - on the table is a three-liter jar of fungus, covered with gauze. Now this is no longer the case.
But some people, especially middle-aged and elderly people, still continue to grow kombucha, and many also have milk kefir mushroom, and somehow such people do not complain about their health. Coincidence or is kombucha really that useful and we just forgot about it? Can this drink harm? The doctor of the highest category, Evgenia Nabrodova, will tell us about all this.
Hello readers of Irina's blog! Kombucha grew on me too. But I gave it to my friends. I will write about the reasons below when I turn to a discussion of contraindications and possible mistakes when growing this mushroom. The drink turns out to be similar to soda, but still more like kvass. Its taste depends on the strength of the infusion and the quality of the brew.
What is kombucha and can it be grown from scratch?
Kombucha is such an amazing "community" of yeast and acetic acid bacteria that convert incoming sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol. The solution contains many organic acids (lactic, acetic, gluconic). This explains the sour taste of the finished drink. In the infusion of Kombucha 3-4 days of exposure to 0.05% acetic acid.
It is known that in China they began to use kombucha in the Han era (250 years BC), and called it "the elixir of health and immortality." Even at that time it was believed that it helps to fight many diseases of the digestive tract and increases the overall tone of the body. As I wrote above, interest in kombucha has gradually faded, and today it is quite difficult to find it among friends. But is it possible to grow kombucha at home and how to do it?
Growing kombucha from scratch
So, how to grow kombucha from scratch and is it possible? I haven't tried it myself, but my friend did. She knew how to make kombucha from tea leaves and homemade apple cider vinegar. I will gladly share this information with you.
The easiest way to grow kombucha at home is from ordinary tea. To do this, take a glass jar, fill it with sweet tea by a third (brewed tea, not tea bags), cover with gauze and put in a dark place for a month. A white film should appear on top - this is the vinegar uterus. Pour into a jar of sweet tea until the mushroom begins to grow.
My friend once accidentally managed to grow kombucha. She planned to make apple cider vinegar, rubbed the apples and poured them with water 1:1, added some sugar. They stood in a dark place for several weeks. After that, she strained them and again put the infusion in a dark place. After a while, a film appeared on top, resembling a jellyfish. From it it turned out to grow a full-fledged Kombucha.
Isn't it amazing? At such moments, you especially acutely feel that there are so many wonderful and inexplicable things around us! Kombucha is a living creature that is surprisingly adapted to even the most adverse environmental conditions. It is necessary to "try hard" to harm the fungus and stop its vital activity.
If you are leaving for a long time, and you have no one to entrust Kombucha, just leave it in a jar of sweet tea and it will “fall asleep” for a while. I know cases when in this form the fungus remained viable for up to several years. After a long break, it must be washed with boiled water and poured with sweet tea, and again you will have the opportunity to drink this healthy refreshing drink every day. Let's talk about the health benefits of kombucha.
Useful properties of tea drink
Like milk mushroom, kombucha has many health benefits. I will list the main ones for you:
- Increases acidity and is suitable for people with low secretory activity of the stomach;
- has antimicrobial properties, especially when applied externally;
- helps with chronic constipation, restores intestinal motility;
- has the ability to stop excess cell growth;
- differs in antioxidant and immunostimulating properties;
- contributes to the protection and restoration of liver cells;
- removes toxic compounds, poisons, drug residues;
- helps to reduce blood sugar levels and normalize weight.
Many people believe that the benefits of kombucha have not been proven. But in fact, scientists have done a lot of research work in this area and have received positive results from the use of a tea drink.
It has been experimentally proven that kombucha solution has the ability to lower blood sugar levels in animals with artificially induced diabetes mellitus.
Kombucha infusion is useful for people prone to excess weight and diabetes. It is also believed that the drink has a good effect on the functioning of the liver and kidneys. The hepatoprotective benefits of kombucha are due to the presence of bacterial cellulose and other beneficial substances, including vitamin C and B vitamins, which are beneficial for the skin and immunity.
There is an opinion that Kombucha inhibits the growth of tumors, but this theory has not yet been experimentally confirmed. Infusion can lubricate wounds and small cuts on the skin.
Despite the obvious beneficial properties of kombucha, there are many opponents of its use. I will explain to you why people's opinions are divided on this issue.
Possible harm to kombucha
By the nature of the profession, one often has to deal with attempts to find universal means for everyone. But this will never happen. Even kombucha behaves differently in different people, and they can use the same brew and the same amount of sugar.
Kombucha is not for everyone. Someone does not like to wash it every week, although I do not consider this a problem. Before we talked about the benefits of kombucha, it's time to talk about its dangers. Adverse consequences when using a tea drink occur if a person uses it incorrectly.
Acetic acid accumulates in the infusion of the fungus, and it just can harm the gastrointestinal mucosa. Therefore, people with high acidity should refuse this drink. Or drink it in low concentration.
I recommend taking kombucha infusion with caution for some chronic gastrointestinal diseases. For example, with Crohn's disease, erosive gastritis. And with ulcers, the drink should not be consumed at all. Acetic acid can further injure the walls of the stomach, and permanent damage to the mucosa is dangerous by increasing the risk of tissue degeneration.
Another contraindication that many do not know about is HIV infection and other immunodeficiency conditions. In the infusion of kombucha, there are fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which, against the background of a pathological decrease in immunity, can cause aspergillosis. This severe disease develops predominantly in HMV-infected patients. Aspergillus fungi affect the respiratory tract, central nervous system, kidneys and other organs.
When studying the beneficial properties of kombucha, remember important contraindications. It is not recommended to abuse the drink even for healthy people - 1-2 glasses a day will be enough. Remember that along with the infusion you get acetic acid and other acids, and their excess can harm your health.
I suggest watching this video about kombucha and learn a lot of interesting things about its beneficial properties.
Is it possible to drink kombucha during pregnancy
You can drink kombucha during pregnancy if the woman has normal stomach acidity and no chronic diseases of the digestive tract in the acute stage. Pregnant women often experience heartburn due to hormonal changes in the body and a change in the position of internal organs under the influence of a growing uterus. Kombucha infusion is contraindicated in severe heartburn, as it can increase it.
Application in childhood
Contraindication to the use of kombucha is age up to 1-2 years. The infusion contains alcohol that can change the immature enzymatic system of the child. In families where they have been drinking a healthy drink for generations, they often do not know about the possible harm of kombucha for the child's body. The mucous membrane of the stomach of children is very vulnerable and sensitive, so if you give the baby an infusion of the fungus, then only after 1-2 years and with a minimum acid content. To do this, simply rinse your fungus with water more often and don't let it stand for long without fresh tea with sugar.
Features of the preparation of infusion
So, how to care for and consume kombucha? How to brew it correctly? Everything is quite simple: focus on your own taste sensations. Kombucha can be prepared from tea leaves with sugar. To do this, simply brew black tea, dissolve sugar in it to taste, let it cool and you can pour it into a pre-washed fungus. To ensure the active life of the fungus, it is necessary to add up to 10 g of sugar per 100 ml of tea leaves.
Do not use hot brew! From this, the delicate surface of the fungus will get burns. Pour only cold tea.
The preparation of tea fungus infusion takes a little time. Don't make life difficult for yourself by boiling water for flushing. The boiled mushroom is washed after a period of "hibernation", when it stands for a long time in tea leaves, which have turned almost into vinegar.
How much to insist
The mushroom is usually infused for several days. As he grows, he will give " kids". They must be separated and used to obtain an additional amount of drink. Keep in mind that the older the mushroom, the faster it will acidify the tea leaves. Therefore, it is better to regularly replace the old mushroom with a young one. So you will always have a slightly acidic and safe drink, which, by the way, perfectly quenches thirst in the heat.
As soon as the drink is ready, it is drained for further consumption, and the mushroom is washed and again poured with cooled tea with sugar. Usually, 2-3 days are enough to prepare the infusion, but this depends not only on the age of the fungus, but also on the volume of the liquid. No one will tell you exactly how to drink kombucha correctly. I believe that due to the presence of acetic acid in the composition, several glasses of the drink are enough per day. Remember that it contains sugar, which in excess is contraindicated in overweight and diabetes.
You can insist the mushroom on herbs, but it will grow worse.
Important additions
Kombucha is rich not only in acids, but also in vitamin C. I often read in reviews from people that the drink can increase tooth sensitivity. If you have bare necks, there is a pain reaction to cold and hot drinks, it is better to drink the mushroom infusion through a straw or rinse your mouth thoroughly after drinking the infusion.
In summer, it is problematic to grow kombucha at room temperature - midges start up. Therefore, nothing terrible will happen if you put a jar of mushroom in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf. The fungus will simply start to “cook” the infusion longer.
How else to use kombucha?
We talked about the benefits of kombucha for the body. If you follow simple rules, this drink will help improve your health and will delight you with its unusual taste for a long time. How else can you use kombucha? It makes it easy to make vinegar. You no longer have to buy it in the store.
This microorganism is used in the everyday life of many people. It has a large number of names: Japanese, Chinese and kombucha. Speaking from a biological point of view, it is a representative of a separate community of microorganisms. Among others, yeast fungi and the notorious acetic acid bacterium belong to the same.
The drink, which is obtained as a result of the use of kombucha, perfectly copes with thirst and has an impressive number of useful properties. That is why many try to grow it at home in a jar in order to always have tea kvass on hand.
Many who want to have this tool at home are wondering how to grow kombucha from scratch. In this article, we will talk about all the subtleties and nuances, as well as how to care for a Chinese jellyfish. It should be noted right away that the growing process is not fast - it takes about two months. And for success in it, it is necessary to adhere to a special kind of recommendations. But first things first.
Useful properties of Japanese mushroom
Before proceeding to the answer to the question of how to properly grow this microorganism at home from scratch, you need to familiarize yourself with the properties that it has.
1. Among those inherent in this microorganism is a large number of unique features that have a beneficial effect on the human body. Kombucha is used for medical purposes, in cosmetology, helps to fight excess calories and weight, and also provides analgesic action.
2. In terms of cosmetic effect, the exceptional properties of kombucha ensure the beauty of hair and skin. He contributes acceleration of metabolism and removes excess salt from the body, which contributes to weight loss. Kombucha also allows you to accelerate the metabolic process in tissues and cells, which contributes to the speedy healing of wounds and scars. Another important feature of this microorganism is to help in the fight against furunculosis, skin and nail fungus, as well as acne.
3. From the point of view of medicine, Kombucha allows you to fight numerous diseases. This microorganism is excellent antioxidant, has properties that help stop inflammatory processes. A mushroom grown in a jar, as well as a drink based on it, is actively used in the fight against intestinal infections, various types of conjunctivitis and, of course, influenza. Often, the infusion of the Chinese mushroom is used in the prevention of diseases such as:
- rheumatism;
- atherosclerosis;
- arthritis.
Among other things, the regular use of a drink such as tea kvass helps to remove small stones and sand from the kidneys, as it has a diuretic effect. The same remedy normalizes the digestive system.
4. If to speak about analgesic properties mushroom grown at home, then its infusion helps relieve toothache. To do this, it is enough to rinse the mouth with tea kvass. It also reduces the pain effect of burns and other skin lesions. The infusion can reduce the intensity of the headache.
It is especially worth noting the fact that if you make the use of tea kvass your habit, you can protect the nervous system from stress and tension. This drink is recommended for use during periods of mental and nervous activity. In addition, it has a tonic and invigorating effect on the body due to the caffeine contained in it.
Contraindications
In principle, as such, there are no restrictions that would make it impossible to grow kombucha for a certain circle of people. However, there are some rules that should be followed when using this microorganism and a drink based on it.
1. Do not use a concentrated solution. Properly prepared kvass has a very pleasant taste. If you ignore the recipe, you get a drink that looks more like apple cider vinegar.
2. Do not add substitutes to the solution. It is allowed to sweeten tea kvass with honey or sugar, but the taste will no longer be the same as in the original.
4. For those who are faced with increased acidity of the body, it is recommended to use kombucha with a base of black tea and honey. The latter has a neutralizing effect on the acidic component of kvass.
Thus, anyone can start this microorganism at home. It is enough to follow simple recommendations in its use.
How to grow kombucha at home from scratch
So, let's start answering the question of how to properly conceive and grow a medusomycete (that's what this microorganism is called in the scientific world). If you don’t want to mess around, then you can ask a friend for a part or purchase it in a specialized online store (as you know, everything is on sale now).
However, it is entirely possible to grow kombucha from scratch at home. To do this, you will need a three-liter jar, tea and, preferably, apple cider vinegar. The container should be large just so that the mushroom has room to grow in width.
Step by step recipe
In a pre-prepared jar, you need to pour about 500 ml of strong sweetened tea and add a little vinegar (half a spoon). Next, the container must be closed with a gauze cloth and secured with an elastic band.
Growing a mushroom in a jar will take about 60 days. At this time, it is necessary to put the container with tea in a warm place. An important condition that must be met in order to grow the mushroom correctly is that the sun's rays should not fall on the container. Medusomycete is extremely tender and will not be able to get stronger in the first 2 months.
After the 60-day period, the mushroom must be carefully removed from the jar, transferred to a deep bowl and washed. This is done with cooled boiled water. Then you need to fill the jar with tea. It should be chilled, with added sugar. The solution should not be made too strong. The proportions are such that one teaspoon of tea leaves is enough for 1 liter of water. We place the mushroom in a jar of tea and again close the neck with a piece of gauze. The jar must be placed again in warm weather and left for three days in the summer or for a week in the winter.
This is how tea kvass is prepared. If you did everything right, the mushroom will float to the surface. In the event that he sank to the bottom, at some stage a mistake was made. You can fix it yourself. It is enough just to rinse the mushroom and place it again in the prepared tea leaves.
As you can see, making kombucha at home is not difficult. It is just as easy to grow and care for him. The drink that you get on the basis of kombucha is very tasty and healthy. Its reserves are quickly depleted, especially in summer, as it quenches thirst well. You can replenish the stock by simply adding water and used strained tea leaves.
How to care for kombucha
We figured out how to grow kombucha at home from scratch. Now we need to talk about caring for him.
Conditions of detention
It is recommended to store a jar of kombucha in a place that does not have a lot of illumination. Special attention requires compliance with the temperature regime. It should correspond to indicators of 20-25 degrees. With a lack or excess of heat, the fungus may die. Even at 17 degrees, the growth and development of this microorganism stops. At the same time, its surface is covered with dark algae.
Kombucha drink also requires special conditions of detention. It is best to keep it in the refrigerator. After a certain time in a warm room, tea kvass begins to deteriorate and ferment. It is recommended to drain the infusion once every three days. In winter, this can be done once every 5 days. Therefore, it is worth having two jars: one for the mushroom, the other for kvass.
Fluid replenishment
In order to properly care for the mushroom in the jar, it is important to take a responsible approach to each of the stages. After you have drained the resulting drink, it is imperative to replenish the supply of nutrient fluid. The fungus needs it for growth and development.
You can add used tea leaves to the water, having previously filtered it. At the same time, it cannot be added in dry form, since the microorganism is extremely gentle and sensitive to it. The same goes for sugar. It must be pre-dissolved.
The bank must be filled by two thirds. You can drain the tea kvass without removing the gauze. Just enough to change it periodically. You can’t leave a jar without gauze. It is needed so that the fungus does not annoy the flies, which for some reason really like it. It is not worth completely closing it - without air, it will suffocate and disappear.
Growth and development of the fungus
It is important that the thickness of the microorganism does not exceed four centimeters. The lower layers are considered the most productive and healing. They can be removed. Do not cut - it injures the fungus. The layers are well separated from each other. The removed part can, if desired, be given to friends for growing a new mushroom at home in a jar.
How to wash jellyfish
In order for the microorganism to feel normal, it must be periodically rinsed with boiled water. This is done once every two quarters. The solution remaining in the jar must be diluted with freshly prepared tea leaves. Green tea is also suitable for this.
Only after the solution is prepared, you can lower the washed mushroom into a jar.
Infusion
It is important to ensure that the liquid with kombucha does not become cloudy. Otherwise, the microorganism will deteriorate and exfoliate, and the kvass itself will lose its medicinal properties.
The most useful is the drink that is not older than 30 days. After that, it starts to deteriorate and becomes vinegar. In this form, kvass is not suitable for ingestion, but can be used for cosmetic purposes. After seven days, the infusion will begin to ferment and acquire a heady effect.
You can understand that tea kvass is spoiled by a special taste. If it has become too sour and a tingling sensation appears on the tongue, then the drink is not suitable for drinking. Kvass can be enriched with herbs: plantain, strawberries, wild rose, birch, and nettles.
Everyone at least once had to meet this miracle in the bank.
Its discoverers, the Japanese, call it seaweed.
In our own open spaces, he received the name - kombucha.
Outwardly, it resembles a constantly growing jellyfish.
Smooth on top and loose at the bottom, where a huge number of yeast bacteria are located, which are involved in the tea-making process.
How is kombucha used at home? Its benefits to the body
The use of tea fungus tincture can be classified as alternative medicine. With its help, get rid of various diseases and prevent their recurrence:
Sleep disturbances and insomnia;
Headache;
Unstable blood pressure;
Stress and loss of strength;
Chronic runny nose;
Chronic tonsillitis;
Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
kidney disease;
Liver disorders;
Diseases of the genitourinary system;
Disorders in the work of the cardiovascular system;
rheumatic carditis;
Polyarthritis;
Atherosclerosis.
Using kombucha is quite simple. First you need to make tea. You can add various healthy herbs that do not contain oils to it. Usually added lime blossom, wild rose, birch leaves, nettles, strawberries. After the brewed tea is infused for an hour, it is carefully filtered, pre-prepared sugar syrup is added to it and it is poured into a three-liter jar, where everything is stirred with purified water. Now a well-washed kombucha is placed here and the jar is covered with clean gauze.
Within a week, the tea will be saturated with yeast bacteria and acetic acids. It can be tried. Kombucha should taste like kvass - just as sharp and sparkling. If the sharpness is not enough, then you should wait until the domestic jellyfish prepares a drink. This may take up to two weeks.
How to use kombucha for health benefits? Fans and connoisseurs of this drink are advised to drink it up to 0.5 liters per day. On an empty stomach in the morning, a glass of homemade mushroom tea will help wake up, invigorate and activate the digestive system. During the day, it is recommended to drink kombucha one hour before meals or 3 hours after meals. A glass of miraculous tincture at night will prevent the development of pathogenic bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, calm and set the body for a restful sleep.
The use of kombucha will help to cope with excess weight, improve the condition of hair and nails, and relieve problematic skin.
Harm from the use of kombucha
It should be remembered that the finished kombucha drink contains a large amount of acetic acids, yeast bacteria that cause fermentation and sugar. Therefore, its use is permissible during pregnancy and breastfeeding only under the condition of the absolute health of the mother and the absence of allergic reactions in her.
Children can also drink kombucha. But given the fermentation processes, you should not accustom kids to this drink from early childhood.
The presence of acids, yeast bacteria and sugar in the drink makes it forbidden for people with diseases such as:
Increased acidity of the stomach;
Diabetes;
Fungal diseases.
Individual intolerance to kombucha, of course, also has a place to be. And in the presence of undesirable manifestations, after taking such tea, you should refuse it.
Kombucha at home: how to grow?
Growing kombucha at home is quite simple if you know some simple rules. To grow a miracle originally from Japan, you will need:
Kombucha sprout;
Three liter clean jar;
Ready-made brewing of ordinary black tea - 100g per 1 liter of water;
Sugar - no more than 60 gr;
Clean gauze.
The washed shoot of the fungus is placed in a clean three-liter jar. Separately brew tea, add sugar to it and mix thoroughly. Sugar should dissolve completely. Kombucha does not like when particles of undissolved sugar fall on it. This can cause him to get sick or even die.
Carefully pour kombucha with brewed tea. We cover with gauze so that dust and other unwanted debris do not get inside.
The process of growing kombucha at home has been launched.
Kombucha at home: why does it die?
How to start the process of growing kombucha at home is now clear. But the important question is how to save it? What secrets do you need to know to protect the tea jellyfish from disease and death?
The cause of many diseases of kombucha is poor care for it:
1. First of all, kombucha needs to allocate its permanent place. It should be warm and bright, but direct sunlight has a detrimental effect on the fungus;
2. Direct sunlight or indoor temperature below 18 degrees provides good soil for the development of blue green algae in a jar of kombucha. With such a violation of the conditions of the fungus, algae cover it, as well as the walls of the jar and float in the entire solution. It is necessary to thoroughly rinse the mushroom, wash and dry the jar, correct errors in the content of kombucha, then the algae will no longer return;
3. Contact with undissolved sugar or tea leaves on kombucha will cause brown spots to appear on it. This is how the affected areas of the tea jellyfish are stained, which will have to be separated from it;
4. Small flies, which often flock to a fruit plate in the summer, are very fond of kombucha. They sit on it and lay their eggs. After that, the emerging fly larvae feed on the fungus, destroying it. This is another reason why a jar of kombucha needs to be covered with multilayer gauze;
5. Young mushrooms with insufficient acidity are more susceptible to negative environmental influences than adult specimens. If the temperature regime is violated or the room is often smoked, mold appears on the surface of the fungus. Most often, such kombucha can only be replaced. But you can try to save kombucha at home. To do this, it is well washed with water, and then doused with boiled vinegar. After that, the mushroom must be placed in a clean tea leaves and monitor its condition. And finally, it is necessary to eliminate the causes that caused this disease.
When caring for kombucha at home, it must be washed regularly with cool running water. The older the mushroom, the larger it is. This tea jellyfish grows layer by layer. Each of them is clearly expressed. When there are many layers, this indicates the good health of a living organism. But dealing with such a ward is getting more and more difficult. The increasing size makes it difficult to remove it from the jar. Often this leads to tears and cuts in the kombucha. This can hardly be attributed to a critical lesion of his tissues. The fungus quickly recovers, as it has excellent self-regeneration. But in order to facilitate the process of caring for a Japanese tea comrade, it is better to carefully remove a certain number of layers from it.
The older and larger the mushroom, the faster it copes with the preparation of the drink. The drink is yeast bacteria and acids. Therefore, it is necessary to be on time, to drain the finished infusion. Otherwise, overexposure of kombucha in the juice formed by it, you can ruin it. The content of acid in the jar is growing every day. Having reached a critical point, the acid will begin to corrode the fungus itself. He will show this by trying to roll over on his side.
With this fundamental knowledge, you can easily grow kombucha at home and use its gift with health benefits.
Kombucha at home: healing cosmetology
Infusion of kombucha has long been known for its unique cosmetic properties. The content of acetic acids in it allows you to effectively cleanse the skin of the face from impurities, as well as lighten age spots. For such purposes, it is recommended to use infused tea for as long as possible. But it is important to ensure that the kombucha itself does not begin to suffer due to increased acidity in its living environment:
Cleansing compresses are made from heated infusion of kombucha. In warm tea, gauze is moistened, put on the face and kept for 10 minutes;
Ice cubes from kombucha will help to narrow pores, tone up and provoke the production of natural collagen;
Nourishing face masks, diluted with infusion of homemade tea jellyfish, will greatly enhance their beneficial effect,
You can simply wipe your face with an infusion of kombucha. This will cleanse and brighten it. You can restore strength and shine to your hair by rinsing them with kombucha.
As you know, the beauty of the skin is hidden in the depths of the body. Japanese mushroom tea perfectly cleanses the body of toxins, heavy substances and excess cholesterol. It saturates it with beneficial bacteria, which leads to the normalization of all systems. Consequently, a person is filled with strength, energy and regains a radiant healthy appearance.
Growing kombucha at home is not at all difficult if you follow simple rules. Well, the benefits of this healing drink are always obvious.
At one time I myself wondered where to get and how to grow kombucha. In fact, everything turned out to be quite simple, only long.
If you don’t feel like messing around, then you can ask around your friends, it’s possible that someone already has kombucha and he will share it with you. You can also use online stores, which, as you know, have everything.
But you can grow it completely on your own, with only tea, sugar and preferably apple cider vinegar.
And it’s worth doing this, if only because kombucha is not only tasty and quenches thirst well, but it also doesn’t contain, which is usually found in many soft drinks, including tea.
How to grow kombucha from scratch
You need to take a three-liter jar and fill it with ordinary tea, its strength is the same as it is drunk: not very weak, but not chifir either. You will need quite a bit of tea, half a liter is enough. A three-liter jar is so that the mushroom has room to grow in breadth, and extra movements will not be needed when we grow kombucha.
Add sugar to this tea, about 100 grams per liter, tie a gauze on top and place it in a place where no one will touch or move the jar. The temperature where the jar will stand should be twenty-five degrees. If there is less, it's okay, it just slows down the process a little.
It is not necessary to hide the jar in a dark place, but he does not like the sun either.
Here's what you can do for yourself if you have a tea room at home.
Gradually, a film will appear on the surface of the tea infusion, which will slowly grow. Be patient, sometimes you need to wait a couple of months, it all depends on the growing conditions. But let the future mushroom stand and grow for itself, but we still do nothing with it, only sometimes we look at how things are going there.
Everything will happen even faster if you take a ready-made mushroom infusion from someone instead. Another way to grow kombucha faster is to add a little apple cider vinegar to the tea, about a tenth of the volume.
When the film is already clearly visible and gains strength, its thickness will be about one millimeter or a little more, this will mean that the mushroom is ready. You can understand this simply by smell, it will be acetic-pleasant. Perhaps not quite correctly expressed, but somewhere like that. Actually you will understand.
If the mushroom is not quite ready yet, and you try it, then nothing terrible will happen either.
At first, bulges will appear on the mushroom, then they will grow and merge together.
Not always and not everyone succeeds in growing kombucha, even if they followed all the recommendations. It's hard to say, perhaps something is wrong with the ingredients. Here online stores can help, where you can order ready-made.
Tea mushroom. How to care.
If you want, you can watch this video, here is just about it.
An adult mushroom looks a bit like a jellyfish. From above it is shiny and smooth, from below, I must say, it does not look very beautiful. But it's delicious and very, very healthy.
You can pour a drink for use without removing the gauze. Just replace it from time to time. For some reason, the mushroom is very fond of flies. And you can’t close the mushroom tightly, it will suffocate and disappear.
You need to fill the jar regularly, topping it up by about 2/3 with sweet tea. We dissolve the sugar in advance, it is not necessary to throw it into the jar undissolved. The fact is that the surface of kombucha is very delicate, and it is easy to injure it.
If the infusion becomes too sour, strongly stings the tongue, then the fungus ceases to exist. It is possible that you will have to simply pour out part of the infusion if they do not have time to drink it. This usually happens in winter when you are not very thirsty. And in the summer, in the heat, as a rule, just have time to add tea leaves.
How often all this is done, you will instantly understand for yourself to taste. It is impossible to say the exact dates, it depends on how much tea leaves are added, what temperature is in the room, how much light is in it. The only criterion is your taste.
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