Should I use distilled water to make Kombucha Tea?
It isn’t a requirement to use distilled water, but many people do use it. However, bear in mind that the distillation process, while removing toxic chemicals etc., also remove all the minerals from the water. Here is more information about distilled water. http://www.nutriteam.com/distil.htm http://www.medical-library.net/sites/distilled_water.html http://www.herbsfirst.com/NewsLetters/Distilledwater.html Excerpt from “WHY DISTILLED WATER?” by Dr. John R. Christopher http://www.hacres.com/html/water.html “Distilled water leaches out only unusable lime, etc. Distilled water has something inherent in it in the nature of a magnet, so to speak, whereby it can pick up these rejected and discarded minerals and, with the assistance of the blood and the lymph, transport them to the kidneys for elimination from the system. This cleaning-up function is not constant. It is this kind of mineral elimination that is erroneously referred to as leaching. The expression that distilled water leaches min
