Hi, vinegar manufacturer here. I have not heard of this and I think there may be some confusion about making "leather" with a kombucha scoby. First, leather is from cow hide and the structural proteins that make up leather are collagens. Kombucha scoby is actually just a mother of vinegar (kombucha is basically dilute vinegar from a sugary tea base) which is made of cellulose as you state below.
There is actually a large amount of research being done on using mother of vinegar cellulose has a possible feedstock for paper production, mostly using Komagaetaeibacter xylinus (also known as Gluconacetobacter xylinus or Acetobacter xylinus in old books). This is a very productive cellulose producing strain and they try to have it make cellulose using a glucose feedstock instead of alcohol (as in vinegar production) since it is less expensive. The cost and quality haven't quite gotten there yet though.
On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 2:08:45 PM UTC-4, Dina Amiri wrote:
Hello!
Who was the first person who discovered we can make leather with kombucha's scoby? Was it used in the past or it's a new discovery? What is the importance of this discovery? If bacterial leather consists of cellulose can it be treated like paper? If researchers came up with an enzime to make paper waterproof, can this also work for bacterial leather?
Thank you.
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