{"id":281,"date":"2008-12-10T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/functional-foods.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:51:23","slug":"kombucha-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/kombucha-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Kombucha Wonder Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kombucha Wonder Drink is a lightly carbonated\u00a0&#8220;infusion&#8221; of water, organic kombucha concentrate, green tea and fruit juice &#8211; sold in energy-drink style cans.\u00a0 The company was founded by Steve Lee, who became entranced with kombucha during a visit to Russia.\u00a0 Kombucha, also known as the &#8220;Manchurian Mushroom,&#8221; is a symbiotic culture of yeasts and bacteria, that&#8217;s used to ferment tea.  The fermented tea is then consumed fresh, as a tonic and &#8220;good-for-what-ails-you&#8221; folk medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The canned drinks come in three flavors: Original, Peach Mango and Cherry Cassis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manufacturer&#8217;s Description:<\/strong> Wonder Drink&#8217; s new 12-oz cans come in three stunning flavors: Original, Cherry Cassis and Peach Mango. All are made with organic green tea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Original: Discover the sparkling botanical profile of our Original. Spearmint, juniper berries and lemon myrtle give a refreshing edge to kombucha. Ginger ale, tonic water and herbal teas have found their kombucha counterpart!<\/li>\n<li>The Cherry Cassis: With all-natural cherry and black currant juices, the Cherry Cassis is the tart sparkling Wonder that quenches your thirst. Its lush ruby red color makes it the jewel of any party.<\/li>\n<li>The Peach Mango: Enjoy the bubbly taste of wellness brought by the Peach Mango! This is a sunny drink that is appreciated by people of all ages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Product Label:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"functional\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\nServing Size 1 Can (12 fl. oz)<br \/>\nCalories 80<br \/>\nCalories from Fat 0<br \/>\nTotal Fat 0g<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\nSodium 0mg<br \/>\nTotal Carbohydrate 18g<br \/>\nSugars 17g<br \/>\nProtein 0g<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\n<p><strong>Contents:<\/strong> Water, Organic Kombucha Concentrate, Organic Green Tea, Organic Cane Juice, Black Current Juice Concentrate, Cherry Juice Concentrate, Carbonation\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong> I picked up a couple of cans of the Peach Mango and Cherry Cassis (above) in the health food section of my local Fred Meyer. A co-worker of my husband once quizzed us on Kombucha, so I was naturally curious &#8211; it was really a sort of impulse buy.<\/p>\n<p>Neither drink was particularly sweet: they were both tart and mildly fizzy. Chilled, the Mango-Peach tasted like a peach-flavored version of the hard cider we used to buy locally when we lived in Oregon.  The Cherry Cassis was similar &#8211; except with a sour cherry flavor.  The taste took a little getting used to&#8230;the first taste of each one came as a bit of a surprise, but it grew on me after the first few sips.<\/p>\n<p>Even now, I&#8217;m not quite sure that I liked either one, but they&#8217;re not bad either&#8230;they were rather refreshing, actually.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little tough to credit the Kombucha mystique when it&#8217;s served up filtered, pasteurized and &#8220;cut&#8221; with other ingredients.  The Kombucha used in Russian folk medicine is pretty raw stuff: you ferment the gelatinous culture in tea, pluck it off (and transfer to a new batch), strain out the chunks, and chug it down.  Basically, you&#8217;re getting a brew of organic acids, live microorganisms, along w\/fragments (hyphae, etc.).  This would certainly account for the immune stimulating properties associated with the stuff, as well as provide some vites and polyphenols from the tea. Assuming you don&#8217;t poison yourself by doing it incorrectly, it could be reasonably healthful.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any benefits to consuming clean, sterile, processed Kombucha?  The company claims the benefits of Kombucha are due to the acids formed during the fermentation process &#8211; which are retained through the concentration\/sterilization process.  I suspect there&#8217;s more to it than that, however &#8211; but the company makes no specific health claims beyond describing &#8220;The Kombucha Effect,&#8221; (which may, or may not, be associated with the commercial product) so we can leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>[usrlist &#8220;Taste:3.0&#8221; &#8220;Quality:4.5&#8221; &#8220;Efficacy:3.0&#8221; &#8220;Value:3.0&#8243; avg=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kombucha Wonder Drink is a lightly carbonated\u00a0&#8220;infusion&#8221; of water, organic kombucha concentrate, green tea and fruit juice &#8211; sold in energy-drink style cans.\u00a0 The company was founded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/functional-foods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}