[Bio] kombucha fans... good news!

Rolf rolfvw at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 06:21:37 UTC 2011


Hey,
I just read a bit of this research article by Yvan Kindenplas
(Belgium( explaining the benefits of
the yeast that appears in many brands of Kombucha: Saccharomyces boulardii.

This stuff is reported to do wonders for travel diarrhea, and
other ailments.

  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00162.x/abstract

Click around, and you can view it as PDF for free.

(Note: brewer's/baker's yeast is different.  That is Saccharomyces cerevisiae.)

-rolf



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