Is Kombucha Actually Good for You? New Study Investigates the Hype

The useful part

Kombucha has long been wellness culture's favorite fermented fizz, praised as a drink that might support gut health, immunity, stress management, and overall wellbeing. Bottles now line supermarket refrigerators across the United States and Europe, while wellness influencers have helped turn the drink into a lifestyle product. Despite its popularity, the science behind many of kombucha's biggest claims has lagged.

How it works

• When researchers at Aberystwyth University tested whether kombucha could help people handle stress, they focused on a question the category has often struggled to answer: does drinking it create measurable...
• However, the expected stress-related improvements did not appear.
• Their eight-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found that kombucha did produce biological changes in participants.