REVIEW ON KOMBUCHA BEVERAGE AND ITS' PHARMACEUTICALS SCOPE

Kombucha beverage is made by fermenting sugared tea using a culture containing a symbiotic consortium of bacteria and yeasts. Though the origin of Kombucha is obscure, it has gained popularity among consumers as a fermented drink from the last decade. This beverage offers many health benefits including anticancer, hepatoprotective, antimicrobial, antioxidant, probiotics, and many more. Though Kombucha beverage has shown persistent health benefits among the consumer worldwide, there are just a few experimental records to support it. The main purpose of this review is to study the literature available on Kombucha with a pharmaceutical perspective.