Sometimes referred to as a " mushroom ", the kombucha culture is actually a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast ( SCOBY ).

The kombucha culture is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, comprising Acetobacter ( a genus of acetic acid bacteria ) and one or more yeasts.

Although the bacterial component of a kombucha culture comprises several species, it almost always includes Gluconacetobacter xylinus ( formerly Acetobacter xylinum ), which ferments the alcohols produced by the yeast ( s ) into acetic acid.

As a result, kombucha is relatively easy to maintain as a culture outside of sterile conditions.

The kombucha culture can also be used to make an artificial leather.

The American Heritage Dictionary suggests: " 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 ).

In Russian, the kombucha culture is called čajnyj grib чайный гриб ( lit.

Herbal teas or those treated with oils may harm the kombucha culture over time.

A standard kombucha recipe calls for one cup of sugar per gallon of water or tea, though some variation in the ratio is tolerated by the culture.

The bacteria and yeasts in kombucha may also produce antimicrobial defense molecules.

It forms a gelatinous substance that allows it to be easily transferred from one fermenting substrate to the next, much like kefir grains, kombucha, and tibicos.

Left entirely alone to ferment with oxygen, the kombucha settles into months of production time ( the " baby " thickening considerably ), creating an ever more acidic and vinegar-flavored cider.

Saccharomyces yeasts can form symbiotic matrices with bacteria, and are used to produce kombucha, kefir and ginger beer.

Fungi and ambient bacteria are used in the preparation of fermented and pickled foods like leavened bread, alcoholic drinks, cheese, pickles, kombucha, and yogurt.

Yeast in symbiosis with acetic acid bacteria is used in the preparation of kombucha, a fermented sweetened tea.

This increases the acidity while limiting the alcoholic content of kombucha.

G. xylinum is responsible for most or all of the physical structure of a kombucha mother, and has been shown to produce microbial cellulose.

The acidity and mild alcoholic element of kombucha resists contamination by most airborne molds or bacterial spores.

The English word kombucha, which was first recorded in 1995, has an uncertain etymology.

A 1965 mycological study called kombucha " Tea Fungus " and listed other names: " teeschwamm, Japanese or Indonesian tea fungus, kombucha, wunderpilz, hongo, cajnij, fungus japonicus, and teekwass.

At any point the kombucha can be tapped or have tea added.

This is sometimes confused with the unrelated English word kombucha, an incorrect yet accepted neologism for the fermented and sweetened tea from Russia, which is called kōcha kinoko ( 紅茶キノコ ) in Japan.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

Or does he sincerely want to tap the real springs of American attitude and culture regardless of how unpopular and embarrassing they may be??

Archaeological cultural units such as Ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, Patayan or Mogollon are used by archaeologists to define material culture similarities and differences that may identify prehistoric socio-cultural units, equivalent to modern societies or peoples.

Other varieties in style may have distinguished between arbitrary groups within a culture, perhaps defining status, gender, clan or guild affiliation, religious belief or cultural alliances.

Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

Probiotics consist of a live culture of bacteria, which may become established as competing symbionts, and inhibit or interfere with colonization by microbial pathogens.

In the Levant, artifacts which may be arrow-shaft straighteners are known from the Natufian culture, ( c. 12, 800 – 10, 300 BP ( before present )) onwards.

A collective identification of beauty, with willing participants in a given social spectrum, may be a socially negotiated phenomenon, discussed in a culture or context.

Fitz Gerald's reference to the " dusky " stable hands suggests the term's origin may lie in African-American culture.

However, scholars assert that a distinct " Central European culture, as controversial and debated the notion may be, exists.

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

Bruno Latour suggests that the widespread popularity of conspiracy theories in mass culture may be due, in part, to the pervasive presence of Marxist-inspired critical theory and similar ideas in academia since the 1970s.

Universities may try to create community through all freshman reads, freshman seminars, and school pride ; however, Nathan argues students will only form communities based on the attributes, such as age and pop culture, that they bring with them to college.

A person who garners a degree of fame in one culture may be considered less famous or obscure in another.

Also more experienced students may go up in rank, depending on their skills and capoeira culture.

The whole society may suffer from an everlasting culture of pain.

The shared culture may be as divergent as Western culture or Chinese culture.

In the United States, the term cultural conservative may imply a conservative position in the culture war.

However, in regions where the sylvatic habitat and its fauna are thinned by economic exploitation and human habitation, such as in newly deforested areas, piassava palm culture areas, and some parts of the Amazon region, a human transmission cycle may develop as the insects search for new food sources.

The archaeologist Kenoyer noted that this culture " may only reflect a change in the focus of settlement organization from that which was the pattern of the earlier Harappan phase and not cultural discontinuity, urban decay, invading aliens, or site abandonment, all of which have been suggested in the past.

Thus references to a patriarchal Biblical culture may or may not be relevant to other societies.