IS STEVIA BAD FOR YOU? TLDR: The jury is still out on the effects of Stevia on overall health, and it's a definite no-no for real kombucha. It’s a great question and one we get asked a lot. Before we look into that, it’s probably best to first look at what is Stevia? Stevia is a sugar substitute derived from Stevia plants. According to Food Insight, “Stevia sweeteners are made by extracting steviol glycosides from the leaves of the stevia plant and purifying them to remove some of the bitter attributes found in the crude extract.” Comes from a plant, must be good, right? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The Stevia found in commercial food and beverages is considered an industrial...
TLDR: Kombucha has been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease. Plenty of people are looking into natural heart attack prevention, and with cardiovascular disease continuing to be the leading cause of death in Australia, we can understand why. At Two Boys Brew Kombucha, we know kombucha has a long list of health promoting benefits, and the great news is, a clinical study has verified this by concluding that kombucha has heart supporting benefits and should be consumed everyday! To give you a bit of background into the research, it focused on kombucha’s ability to reduce myocardial damage. We’ll try not to get too sciency, but basically, they wanted to see if kombucha could protect against heart damage and heart attack....
MASSIVE BENEFITS, LITTLE COST. One story of how our Two Boys Brew Kombucha is helping men rebuild their gut-health. Chris reached out to us to tell us how much he loved our kombucha. Once we heard a little bit about his story, we wanted to hear more. Hi Chris, tell us a bit about yourself… Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first eight years of my life there, and then moved out to Australia and settled into Melbourne and been here for over 30 years. Married for 20 years and two girls, a house, and two dogs. How did you hear about our booch? Randomly. I was just at our local café for a lunch meeting and our client...
Does kombucha have caffeine or alcohol in it? These are a few very common questions we receive. 1. Does kombucha have caffeine in it? And how much caffeine in kombucha? 2. Does kombucha have alcohol? And how much alcohol does kombucha have? Let’s walk through it… Caffeine Kombucha is essentially a fermented tea beverage. As we know, tea contains caffeine. Excluding most herbal teas of course. However the level of caffeine found in tea is dependent on the type of tea leaf used to make the tea. Black tea is significantly higher in caffeine than its green and white tea friends. In tea bags it equates to - on average - about 40-50 mg of caffeine in black tea, compared to...
What is Kombucha tea? We’ve heard them all, kambucha, kombacha, konbucha, kumbacha - when you’re getting your head around this gut loving drink remembering the name is no easy feat! Kombucha. Or as we tend to call it around Two Boys Brew - Booch. The fermented drink that is made with the key ingredient - tea. We’ve rounded up your questions about this hero kombucha ingredient, so you can know you’re getting the best of the best when you drink our booch. What kind of tea do you use? We use a blend of certified organic, fair trade green and white tea. Not only do we prefer the taste of our tea blend, but research shows...
