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The Food Programme

Kombucha: A Miracle Drink?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4943 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kombucha has been around for a while but it has not had huge success in this country like it has in the US and Australia.

In this programme, Jaega Wise looks at why that may be as well as sampling some drinks from our BBC Food & Farming Awards finalists and investigating the health claims of kombucha.

This programme features Old Tree Brewery, William Kendall, Mark Ilan Abrahams, Paul Cotter, Lucy George from Peterson Tea and Kara Monssen.

Presented by Jaega Wise and produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sam Grist

Transcript

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0:44.6

The low alcohol drink sector has been booming in the last few years, and in this episode

0:49.6

we really zoom in and focus on the drink Kambuocher. If you've never tried it before, maybe have a go,

0:55.8

but you might want to after listening to this program. So have you got a brew on the go right now?

1:07.0

Yeah, okay, cool.

1:08.0

These are right here. So they're all open air. So how long long has this been here?

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This is here for a week?

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Just a week.

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Goodness.

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You can see the scovey growing on the surface of the liquid, so that's called a pelical.

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It's made out cellulose and that's produced by the bacteria during the course of the fermentation.

1:31.6

So a lot of people think it looks like a mushroom or a jellyfish and

1:34.6

most people would brew with this. They transfer this from batch to batch but you can just

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