Kombucha with Grape Juice
Question
‘Kombucha tea’, ie fermented tea, is widely accepted as “permissible”, according to the people I had asked. However, I came across a brand in which the ingredients listed included not only black and green tea, but also several fruit juices. One of the fruits listed was ‘organic white grape juice’.
Q: will the presence of grape juice in kombucha tea affect the permissibility of this beverage?
Answer
In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Waʿalaykum al-Salām wa raḥmat Allāh wa Barakātuh.
You may consume regular kombucha so long as the grape juice does not ferment.[i]
And Allah knows best.
[i] ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Kāsānī, Badāʾiʿ al-Ṣanāʾiʿ, 1st ed (Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 1327-1328), 5:117.
(وأما) الخليطان فحكمهما عند الاجتماع ما هو حكمهما عند الانفراد من النيء عنهما والمطبوخ