Kombucha and caffeine

[Guest guest]

Yes, and no to your question about caffeine in Kombucha tea. Here is the

reason for the equivocal response: It depends greatly on how long and how

completely the tea is fermented. The culture feeds on the sugar and

caffeine in the starter " batch " making all of the wonderful amino acids,

vitamins, and nutrients as by-products of its digestion and reproduction.

The longer the Kombucha is allowed to carry out this process the less there

is of the original products. Eventually there is no sugar or caffeine

present.

Kris

[Guest guest]

This message just came from the Kombucha list, since there was a question a

while back about caffeine and kombucha, I thought I'd pass ythis on.

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-----Original Message-----

From: Len Porzio [mailto:LPorzio@...]

Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 6:00 AM

'kombucha@...'

Subject: RE: [KT] Decaf tea?

There is no problem with decaf although I found I needed slightly more of

it to get the same results in taste.

As for caffeine content, due to the weakness of the standard recipes,

caffeine is very low especially with green tea. In fact, the standard

recipe quoted before of 5 bags to 3 quarts with a long steep will yield 1/3

the caffeine of a cup of hot green tea which is half the amount of black and

half again that of coffee. (.33 X .5 X .5 or about one 12th the caffeine in

a cup of coffee.)

So don't be too concerned about this level especially since there are some

benefits to caffeine as well in small quantities. You don't hear these much

because we tend to abuse it's use. But take for example heavy coffee

drinkers rarely experience goal stones. There are others if you research it

a little which escape me for the moment. So unless you're feeling anxious

or jittery or have a tendency for lumps, don't be scared of caffeine.

-----Original Message-----

From: gamsky verna [mailto:sunnie33971@...]

Subject: [KT] Decaf tea?

Has anyone used Decaf Tea? I am not suppose to be drinking anything with

caffeine and find that I react from the decaf. No major problem but would

think it would be better for me to use the decaf if I can. If it is not a

good idea then I will just get used to the caffeine fix I get when i drink

this. Thanks Verna