Kombucha - legal or illegal?

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I used kombucha before I went to SCD. The kombucha is a colony of bacteria

and yeasts which feeds on the sugar and tea that it's grown on, and

producing all sorts of useful " stuff " which we get when we drink the

liquid.

HOWEVER, I concluded that kombucha was just too iffy in the initial stages

of SCD to be trustworthy. I haven't used it in the five-plus years I've

been SCD. I suspect it would fall in a category similar to kefir -- a very

advanced food.

I will also state that while it is possible to purchase kombucha products,

I would, were I to go back to it, use only homemade kombucha tea, and I

would ferment it about 21 days instead of the 7-10 days typically

recommended.

My reasoning on this stems from the fact that pre-SCD, when I would drink a

standard ferment, it gave me problems, but the 21-28 day ferment did not.

This could be analogous to the difference between store-bought yogurt and

our SCD yogurt.

KOMBUCHA IS NOT SCD-LEGAL.

The chlorella is not legal. It's an algae and contains significant amounts

of polysaccharides, which we eliminate on SCD.

Chlorella is said to be good for detoxing heavy metals -- SCD does that all

by itself. As the gut heals, it eliminates the bad stuff.

So, sorry, neither chlorella nor kombucha is SCD legal.

-- Marilyn (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)

Undiagnosed IBS 25 Years, SCD Five Years

Darn Good SCD Cook

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