Benefits of Tibicos Mushroom or Water Kefir
Tibicos? When I was first introduced to this strange spongy transparent gelatin-like substance, I was quite confused over the many names that I came across after searching the Internet.
The more I searched, the more confused I became. Finally, I decided to stick to my favorite website, Wikipedia, which has two separate articles on this substance. One is tibicos and the other is kefir. From there I tried to form some sort of a logical conclusion.
Asians tend to refer this substance as tibicos, more specifically as tibicos mushroom. Please bear in mind that it is definitely not the typical mushroom. Tibicos is believed to have originated from Tibet.
Most people from the west call it kefir, and attribute its source from the Caucasian mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Both tibicos and kefir are considered a probiotic drink containing a complex structure of good bacteria and yeast in a matrix of proteins, lipids and sugars.
Probiotics refers to the healthy bacteria which feeds on the bad unhealthy bacteria in our stomach and intestines.
By whatever name we may call it, I believe that they are similar, or at least from the same family.
So let us get the name right. And it has so many names across the globe.
Here are just a few names for this mysterious and miraculous substance: Tibicos, tibicos mushroom, tibicos life grains, tibis, kefir, milk kefir, water kefir, kefir grains, kefir life grains, sugar kefir grains, kefir yogurt, kefir fungus, Japanese water crystals, California bees, beer seeds, ginger bees, Tibetan mushroom, and Chinese snow lotus or xuelian, or xue lian flowers (Xue Lian Hua ~ ).
The photo showing the tibicos mushroom on the top right corner was taken by me. You would notice the brown color instead of the whitish color as shown in some other sites. This is due to the concentrated brown sugar used for my special recipe that you will find at the end of this article.
Kefir comes in two different types: milk kefir and water kefir. The former is by using milk. And the latter, water. Some people consider these two as different types of kefir. I think they are similar, but I stand to be corrected.
Whatever they are, we are more concerned with the efficacy of this substance, which I choose to call Tibicos mushroom. It looks like little cauliflower florets but in transparent jelly-like form.
It feeds on milk or sugar solution to form a culture of bacteria and yeast. The end-product of this mixture is the tibicos mushroom drink, be it in Beds For Sale Port Elizabeth water-base or milk-base. The alternative names are water kefir and milk kefir. In this article, it is this drink in water-base form that we will focus on. Some call it a live-cultured drink.
http://hubpages.com/health/Tibicos-or-water-kefir
The more I searched, the more confused I became. Finally, I decided to stick to my favorite website, Wikipedia, which has two separate articles on this substance. One is tibicos and the other is kefir. From there I tried to form some sort of a logical conclusion.
Asians tend to refer this substance as tibicos, more specifically as tibicos mushroom. Please bear in mind that it is definitely not the typical mushroom. Tibicos is believed to have originated from Tibet.
Most people from the west call it kefir, and attribute its source from the Caucasian mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Both tibicos and kefir are considered a probiotic drink containing a complex structure of good bacteria and yeast in a matrix of proteins, lipids and sugars.
Probiotics refers to the healthy bacteria which feeds on the bad unhealthy bacteria in our stomach and intestines.
By whatever name we may call it, I believe that they are similar, or at least from the same family.
So let us get the name right. And it has so many names across the globe.
Here are just a few names for this mysterious and miraculous substance: Tibicos, tibicos mushroom, tibicos life grains, tibis, kefir, milk kefir, water kefir, kefir grains, kefir life grains, sugar kefir grains, kefir yogurt, kefir fungus, Japanese water crystals, California bees, beer seeds, ginger bees, Tibetan mushroom, and Chinese snow lotus or xuelian, or xue lian flowers (Xue Lian Hua ~ ).
The photo showing the tibicos mushroom on the top right corner was taken by me. You would notice the brown color instead of the whitish color as shown in some other sites. This is due to the concentrated brown sugar used for my special recipe that you will find at the end of this article.
Kefir comes in two different types: milk kefir and water kefir. The former is by using milk. And the latter, water. Some people consider these two as different types of kefir. I think they are similar, but I stand to be corrected.
Whatever they are, we are more concerned with the efficacy of this substance, which I choose to call Tibicos mushroom. It looks like little cauliflower florets but in transparent jelly-like form.
It feeds on milk or sugar solution to form a culture of bacteria and yeast. The end-product of this mixture is the tibicos mushroom drink, be it in Beds For Sale Port Elizabeth water-base or milk-base. The alternative names are water kefir and milk kefir. In this article, it is this drink in water-base form that we will focus on. Some call it a live-cultured drink.
http://hubpages.com/health/Tibicos-or-water-kefir
