What's for Dinner?

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Originally Posted by sad_winslow

The "probiotic" nature of the unpasteurized stuff is maybe equivalent to that of yogurt, and how beneficial that is exactly is still kind of up in the air, even.

This is not true, but you couldn't have known that you were accidentally diving into a conversation with a probiotic obsessive. Truly fresh kombucha that has been fermented for 24+ hours (which is not necessarily true for something you get from the store that calls itself kombucha, and certainly not "kombucha tea" which is like "cheese product,") has trillions of CFU of both beneficial bacteria and yeasts. Your average store yogurt has only about 5 billion CFU per serving, and what's more, it is artificially seeded with only 2-4 species of bacteria and no yeast, compared to literally hundreds of species in the kombucha mother which have evolved together into a balanced colony.

I'll grant you that store-bought yogurt is as probiotically useful as store-bought "kombucha tea." But real, fermented yogurt and kombucha are both entirely different things, and exponentially more potent.

As a favor to everyone else here, I'll leave the rant about the many proven health benefits for another time.