[AG-EQ] Kombucha

[dogwood farm]

I have heard of the scoby tea several years ago for its health
benefits.  I'm sorry, that is too much like the fungus amungus for me,
lol.

Susan
dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com

On 2/21/20, Jewel via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I copied the following, directly, from the Mother Nature Network.  It looks
> OK on my computer and, I
> hope, on yours too.
>
>           Jewel
>
>
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> jar and pitcher of kombucha tea
> This fermented brew may not seem appetizing, but kombucha fans swear by its
> healing properties.
> (Photo: Dewald Kirsten/Shutterstock)
>
>
> But along the way to whipping up a bottle of this wonder tonic you're likely
> to encounter a curious
> creature that's essential to the brewing process.
>
> That would be the scoby - a slime-covered organism that resembles a flat
> jellyfish. An acronym for
> "symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast," the scoby is the living heart of
> every kombucha-brewing
> operation.
>
> But this quivering hockey puck's work may extend far beyond giving you a
> health boost. It may be a
> tonic for our plastic-addled planet.
>
> kombucha
> That's not a jellyfish swimming in that kombucha; it's a scoby. (Photo:
> Daniel S
> Edwards/Shutterstock)
>
>
> According to the website for MakeGrowLab, the design studio Janusz
> co-founded in 2018, scobys may be
> the ultimate packaging for dry and semi-dry food. A thin layer of scoby
> seals air-tight. It doesn't
> break easily. It's an antibacterial barrier. And it can protect food for at
> least six months.
>
> Water doesn't faze it either.
>
> Did we mention you can eat it too? Even if you're not down with scarfing
> back kombucha slime, the
> planet certainly has an appetite for it. Scobys biodegrade easily,
> fortifying the soil along the
> way.
>
> As Juliette Bretan writes in OneZero, Janusz came up with the idea while
> making kombucha. She noted
> how the maturing scoby eventually formed a "waxy, pancake-like membrane atop
> the liquid, protecting
> the kombucha underneath."
>
> What if that very dedicated membrane could be persuaded to protect other
> foodstuffs?
>
> She gave the fermentation process a boost by adding agricultural waste to
> the bacteria-yeast
> cocktail. It also allowed her to ramp up production of these thin protective
> layers, while producing
> zero waste.
>
> "We had to find a solution to keep the material home-compostable but make it
> scalable," tells
> OneZero.
>
> No longer the unsung hero that nurtures and protects kombucha tea, the scoby
> was reborn as SCOBY
> Packaging, a product that Janusz hopes will inspire a biorevolution.
>
> Which begs the question: Scoby-doo, where are you? Well, there's a crucial
> reason why your granola
> bar isn't tucked into a slime sleeve right now. Living creatures, like
> scobies, don't exactly roll
> off an assembly line. They grow over time. In fact, producing a single sheet
> of SCOBY Packaging
> takes about two weeks.
>
> Mass manufacturing of this stuff is still a ways off.
>
> Instead of a revolution, we might think of it more as an evolution. In the
> meantime, if you're
> looking to start a revolution of your own, here are a few tips for kicking
> that plastic habit.
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