It has thick texture, light beige color and specific flavor characteristic of the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Caucasian region.
The name, boza, in Turkish comes from the Persian word, buze, meaning millet. It is known that Central Asian Turks invented the beverage. Boza enjoyed it golden age during the Ottoman Empire, as the beverage was spread to all the occupied lands.
It is currently enjoying a new fame with European as a bust booster. It is best enjoyed with a banitsa, a pastry snack.
Traditionally, it has been touted as having an ability to augment the milk production of lactating women.
The medical explanation could be that boza raises the prolaction hormones that help milk production, and perhaps leading to breasts enlarging.
The alcohol content is generally low, less than 1% but boza from Egypt can contain up to 7%.
Fermented beverage of boza
