Kombucha Definition

kŏmbo͝ochä
noun
A lightly sparkling beverage made by fermenting black or green tea and sugar with a culture of various bacteria and yeasts.
American Heritage Medicine

A fermentation of sweetened tea.

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Other Word Forms of Kombucha

Noun

Singular:
kombucha
Plural:
kombuchas

Origin of Kombucha

  • Probably from Japanese kombucha tea made from kombu (the Japanese word perhaps being used by English speakers to designate fermented tea due to confusion or because the thick gelatinous film produced by the kombucha culture was thought to resemble seaweed) kombu kombu kombu cha tea chanoyu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Japanese 昆布茶 (こんぶちゃ, konbucha, こぶちゃ, kobucha, “kelp tea")

    From Wiktionary

Kombucha Sentence Examples

  • Vegans can also get probiotics by eating non-dairy fermented sources of the bacteria, such as kim chi, sauerkraut, tempeh, miso, and kombucha.

  • So called because of their shape and color, organic kombucha mushrooms are not, in fact, technically mushrooms at all.

  • When fermented to make the increasingly popular kombucha tea, a slimy mass forms on the tea's surface that bears a resemblance to a mushroom cap.

  • When aged, this is the formation of a kombucha mushroom.

  • People with any history of yeast intolerance should not drink kombucha tea.

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Words Starting With

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