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Kombucha: what's actually in it?

Kombucha is tea fermented with a culture (a SCOBY — a symbiotic community of bacteria and yeast) fed with sugar or honey. Fermentation turns some of that feedstock into organic acids and a trace of alcohol, and leaves some sugar behind — how much depends on the brew. That is why the two things this page tracks most closely are sugar as printed and alcohol as printed where stated: two kombuchas with the same flavour name can have very different sugar and alcohol, and the label is the only way to tell.

Singapore's kombucha range is small and mostly local: Singapore brewers (Fizzicle, Craft & Culture, Wild Boocha, Yocha) plus two Australian brands at Little Farms (Remedy, Hippie). Yocha — sold at all FairPrice Finest and Xtra outlets and major Cold Storage stores — was missed entirely in the first pass and is added in the 5 November 2026 re-audit. No mainstream supermarket brand of kombucha with a verifiable list was found in this pass, and a major Australian brand (MOJO) has no verified Singapore listing at all — both facts are stated rather than padded over. This page does not give a health score and makes no gut-health claim beyond quoting what the brands themselves print.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Two sugar systems, cleanly split. Local brewers (Fizzicle, Craft & Culture, Wild Boocha) list sugar or honey as an ingredient and leave residual sugar in the bottle — Hippie at Little Farms prints 3.6g sugars per 100ml. Remedy (Australia) uses a different system: sugar is the fermentation feedstock, but the brand says a long-aged fermentation brews it out, “no sugar remains”, and sweetness comes from erythritol + steviol glycosides instead. Read the list to see which system a bottle uses — the word “kombucha” alone will not tell you.
• Junboocha is not a typo for kombucha. Fizzicle's junboocha line is fermented with wildflower honey instead of sugar (and green tea), while its kombucha line uses sugar. The two are kept apart on this page because their ingredient lists differ in exactly that one ingredient.
• Alcohol: mostly not stated. Only Remedy carries an alcohol statement on the sources checked (less than 0.5% ABV, per the brand/retailer FAQ) and Hippie carries a “Low / No Alcohol” tag at Little Farms. For Fizzicle, Craft & Culture and Wild Boocha, no ABV was found on the sources checked — the page says “not stated” rather than inventing a figure or implying zero.
• Craft & Culture contradicts itself on sugar content. Its own pages say roughly 2–4% sugar by bottle volume in one place and about 5% in another. Both figures are shown, neither is picked as the truth.
• “Unsweetened” and “no sugar added” tags clash with ingredient lists — again. Little Farms tags Hippie Cranberry & Rose as “Unsweetened / No Sugar Added / Low sugar”, yet its ingredient list includes raw cane sugar and its nutrition table prints 3.6g sugars per 100ml. The list and the numbers are shown side by side; the tags are not repeated as fact.
• Plain kombucha is hard to buy. Only one plain product is panelled (Craft & Culture Original Black Tea); almost everything else is flavoured, and several brands' “original” is a flavour in disguise (e.g. ginger, lemon, or a fruit blend). Flavoured variants are separate rows throughout.

At a glance

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Singapore brewers — Fizzicle (kombucha and junboocha)

Fizzicle (Harper Road, Singapore) makes both lines. The kombucha line uses sugar + green tea; the junboocha line uses wildflower honey + green tea (jun is a honey-based kombucha tradition, using green tea and honey rather than black tea and sugar). No ABV is stated on any Fizzicle product page checked.

Singapore brewers — Yocha (sold at FairPrice Finest/Xtra and Cold Storage)

Yocha (Singapore, Depot Lane) was missed entirely in the first pass and is added in the 5 November 2026 re-audit. Its drinks are sold at all FairPrice Finest and Xtra outlets and major Cold Storage stores, and on RedMart and Amazon SG, per the brand's own stockist pages. Flag on every Yocha panel: Yocha publishes “Brewed with” lines rather than a full pack ingredient list, and water is not stated in them. The panels below quote those brew lines exactly as the brand publishes them — they are the brand's own brew statement, not a pack transcription, and residual sugar and ABV are not stated for any Yocha flavour. Yocha describes its range as 100% natural, gluten-free, vegan, with no preservatives or added colouring — brand statements, quoted as such.

Singapore brewers — Craft & Culture (plain black tea, and the sugar conflict)

Singapore brewers — Wild Boocha

Wild Boocha (Mandai Foodlink, Singapore; official store on Shopee SG) brews in small batches, refrigerated. Its lists name fresh fruit and herbs rather than “flavours” — a genuinely more specific list style than most brands here. No ABV is stated on the Shopee listings checked.

Australian brands at Little Farms — Hippie (sugar listed, numbers printed)

Australian brands — Remedy (brewed-out sugar system) — AU/UK/US listings; SG pack to confirm

Remedy is sold in Singapore at Little Farms and via Shopee SG, but the ingredient lists below are from Remedy's Australian/UK/US listings — every Remedy panel is flagged “SG pack to confirm”. The system is consistent across all five flavours and is worth understanding once: the base is raw kombucha (carbonated water, sugar, black tea, green tea, kombucha culture), the sugar is stated to be brewed out by a long-aged fermentation (“no sugar remains” — the brand's claim, printed on its labels), and sweetness/flavour comes from erythritol, steviol glycosides (stevia) and natural flavourings/juices. Remedy states its drinks are less than 0.5% ABV (brand/retailer FAQ) — the only ABV figure on this page besides Hippie's tag. Remedy also states its drinks are raw, unpasteurised, vegan and gluten-free; those are brand statements, not verified here.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked:

• Fizzicle other flavours — Pink Guava (name only in coverage and on the brand's flavour lists; no verbatim list found) and any further Fizzicle flavours beyond the eight panelled. Hibiscus Jun, Calmboocha and Echinacea Hops Jun are now panelled above.
• Craft & Culture flavoured kombuchas — ginger chia, lychee, strawberry lemonade, rose chia and seasonal blends (names only in coverage), plus the further flavours on the brand's product sitemap, 5 November 2026: Lemon, Sakura Peach, Citrus Blend, Yuzu, Concord Grape, Roasted Oolong, Tie Kuan Yin, Jasmine Green Tea, Peach, White Peach Oolong, Gaoshan Green Tea, Da Hong Pao, Special Golden Flower and Juicy Melon Black Tea Kombucha. No verbatim lists found for any of them; the Lemon sitemap link returned 404 when opened. The Original panel's sugar conflict (2–4% vs ~5%) also needs resolving from the brand before any flavoured panel is added.
• Wild Boocha other flavours — Yuzu Lavender, Raspberry Passionfruit, Lemongrass Ginger Turmeric, Jasmine Hibiscus, Mountain Oolong, Koffeee (names only, mainstay list per NutraIngredients, May 2023), plus Hibiscus Mint and Lavender Lemonade (names only in 2026 coverage) and English Breakfast, Lemon & Ginger, Jasmine Pearl (café-menu names only); no verbatim lists found.
• Remedy Cherry Plum, Apple Crisp, Passionfruit, Yuzu & Mandarin — Passionfruit and Yuzu & Mandarin are listed at Little Farms Singapore; Cherry Plum and Apple Crisp have AU lists but no SG listing verified. No SG lists retrieved for any of the four.
• Yocha Passionfruit — the sixth Yocha flavour per the brand's own range description (2019); no “Brewed with” line retrieved for it.
• Little Farms drinks listings for Kombucha — Peach / Raspberry Lemonade / Ginger Lemon (4 × 250ml cans) — resolved, 5 November 2026: these are Remedy (RKO) multipacks — the Lemon, Lime & Mint multipack page is a Remedy (RKO) listing, and the same brand's cans are listed under Remedy at Little Farms. The flavour-specific SG lists for Peach, Raspberry Lemonade and Ginger Lemon cans are still not retrieved, so they are not panelled as SG lists.
• MOJO (Australia) — AU ingredient lists exist (e.g. Ginger: organic activated kombucha (water, organic sugar, organic tea, kombucha culture), ginger juice (2.2%), organic ginger powder (<1%), probiotic Bacillus coagulans GBI-30 6086; plus Mango Lime and Passionfruit variants) but no Singapore retail listing was verified — MOJO is not panelled as a Singapore product.
• Komboochy, The Good Kombucha, Nami Kombucha, Yocha, Mel's Kombucha Bar — flavour names and tea bases only (e.g. Komboochy: passionfruit mint in earl grey; lychee rose / honey rose / pomegranate roselle in green tea; sour plum / tangerine chrysanthemum in oolong) — no verbatim lists found.
• FairPrice / Cold Storage / Giant / Sheng Siong / Donki / Mustafa / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / RedMart kombucha ranges — no mainstream-brand kombucha with a verifiable list was found from those channels in this pass; kombucha in Singapore is a specialty/direct-sale category, and an in-store check of the chilled drinks aisle would be needed to close this gap.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

Salt on this page is shown as salt = sodium × 2.5: sodium is quoted as printed, with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is never presented as salt. Sugars below are total sugars as printed. For Remedy, the brand states its sugar is brewed out by long-aged fermentation ("no sugar remains") — that is the brand's statement, quoted as such, and the printed total-sugars figure is 0g in both rows' sources. Figures are per 100ml as sold, unless stated otherwise. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any kombucha listing checked in this pass, so none is quoted here; none has been assigned.

* Hippie fat: Little Farms prints 0.1g per 100ml; a mirror listing prints <0.1g. The Little Farms figure is shown; the difference is flagged, not resolved. Hippie's sodium is printed as "<40mg/kg", which is not a per-100ml figure, so it is quoted exactly as printed rather than converted.

As observed numbers only: Hippie Cranberry & Rose prints 3.6g sugars per 100ml, while Remedy Mango Passion prints 0g sugars per 100ml; Mango Passion prints sodium <5mg per 100ml. No health verdict, ranking or pick is drawn from these numbers.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): all eight Fizzicle kombuchas/junboochas; Craft & Culture Original Black Tea Kombucha; both Wild Boocha kombuchas; all five Yocha kombuchas (no nutrition panels found on the brand's pages in this pass); and Remedy Ginger Lemon, Raspberry Lemonade, Wild Berry and Peach. UK/AU nutrition panels exist for those Remedy flavours, but they were not used here because this page already flags all Remedy ingredient lists as "SG pack to confirm" — a non-Singapore panel is not a substitute for the Singapore pack. Their nutrition needs an SG pack or a Little Farms Singapore listing, not a borrowed overseas panel. The Lemon, Lime & Mint row above is partial (carbohydrates and sugars only, from the Little Farms multipack table).

How to read a kombucha label — the jargon, in plain English

SCOBY

Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast — the jelly-like culture that ferments sweetened tea into kombucha. On ingredient lists it appears as “live cultures”, “kombucha culture” or “live kombucha cultures”.

Kombucha vs junboocha (jun)

Kombucha is fermented with sugar (usually on black or green tea). Junboocha uses honey instead of sugar and traditionally green tea. The difference shows up as one ingredient word — sugar vs honey — and matters for anyone avoiding honey or sugar.

Long-aged fermentation / “brewed out” sugar

Remedy's claim: a longer fermentation lets the culture consume essentially all the sugar, so the finished drink has “no sugar” (per the brand) even though sugar is listed as a fermentation ingredient. It is a process claim, not something you can verify from the list alone — and it is why Remedy's lists still show sugar first in the base.

Erythritol, steviol glycosides (stevia)

Sweeteners that are not sugar: erythritol is a sugar alcohol, steviol glycosides are the sweet compounds from stevia leaf. A kombucha listing them is sweetened, not unsweetened — even if its sugar line reads zero.

ABV

Alcohol by volume. Kombucha fermentation always produces some alcohol; whether a label states it varies. “Not stated” on this page means no ABV figure was found on the sources checked — it does not mean zero, and it does not mean the drink is alcoholic in any meaningful sense. Only Remedy (<0.5% ABV, brand statement) and Hippie (“Low / No Alcohol” tag) carry alcohol statements here.

Raw / unpasteurised

Not heat-treated after fermentation, so live cultures remain in the bottle. It also means the drink keeps fermenting slowly — hence “keep refrigerated” and “consume within 3 days of opening” on several listings.

“Natural flavour / flavouring” vs juice

“Natural raspberry flavour” is a flavouring compound, not raspberry juice — Remedy's Raspberry Lemonade lists no raspberry juice percentage. Where a brand lists “fresh strawberries” or “ginger juice (2%)”, that is a real ingredient with a real quantity, and it reads differently. Check which one your bottle has.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not medical or probiotic advice. “No sugar remains”, strain counts and herb benefits are the brands' statements, quoted as such.
• Not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. This is a small category in Singapore and the page says so: twenty-three verified products (five of them Remedy flavours flagged as overseas listings pending an SG pack check, one Remedy flavour with a verified SG list, and five Yocha flavours panelled from the brand's “Brewed with” lines rather than full pack lists), with the rest of the names found left honestly unverified rather than padded with overseas-only brands like MOJO.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: Fizzicle product pages (Tropical, Strawberry Lemonade, Ginger, Number 1, Passionfruit Mint); Craft & Culture sampler/FAQ pages (Original Black Tea); Wild Boocha Shopee SG official-store listings (Strawberry Mint, Harmony); Little Farms product page (Hippie Cranberry & Rose, read in full); Remedy AU/UK/US listings (Ginger Lemon, Raspberry Lemonade, Wild Berry, Peach, Mango Passion) — flagged as overseas listings pending an SG pack check; background coverage (NutraIngredients, Honeycombers) for inventory only. Re-audited 5 November 2026: Fizzicle Hibiscus Jun, Calmboocha and Echinacea Hops Jun product pages; Yocha brand site and stockist pages (getyocha.com) and range coverage; Little Farms kombucha category (Remedy Lemon, Lime & Mint SG list; 4 × 250ml cans identified as Remedy/RKO); Craft & Culture product sitemap for flavoured-kombucha inventory. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes.

Nutrition note (added 5–6 November 2026): the "Nutrition — what the numbers say" section above standardises figures to per 100g or per 100ml wherever the pack or retailer gives per-100 figures; figures available only per serving are quoted exactly as per serving (with serving size as printed) and are not converted to per-100. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars — the ingredient list is the evidence for added sugar. Salt = sodium × 2.5; sodium is shown as printed with the salt equivalent in brackets, and is never presented as salt. Where Singapore's official Nutri-Grade is printed on a drink pack or listing it is quoted as printed; no grade has been assigned by this site, and no health score, ranking or "best" pick is given. Products whose nutrition could not be verified are listed under "seen but not verified (nutrition)" on each page, not estimated.