What Are The Uses For Apple Cider Vinegar

What Is Natural Apple Cider Vinegar and uses for apple cider vinegar?  Is drinking apple cider vinegar good for your body?

The truly useful apple cider vinegar is NOT the clear vinegar you find in many stores.  If you want the powerful detox benefits, then get the natural apple cider vinegar with a brownish tinge to it and floating inside.  Different from the refined and distilled vinegars usually found in supermarkets.  A real apple cider vinegar with detox capability is naturally fermented from fresh, wholesome, organically grown apples.  When mature, it contains a web-like substance, called 'mother', which becomes visible when the rich brownish liquid is held to the light.  Only when fresh, organic apples are used to make the apple cider vinegar, you can get the benefit from its life stimulating enzymes and minerals.  Avoid distilled or treateed apple cider vinegar.

The Mother is the dark, cloudy substance in the apple cider vinegar that formed from naturally ocurring pectin and apple residues – it appears as molecules of protein connected in strand-like chains.  Vinegars with the Mother contain enzymes and minerals that other vinegars may not have due to over-processing, filtration and overheating.  Mother of vinegar is believed to have antibacterial and antifungal properties.  It is the most nutritious part of the apple cider vinegar.

Should apple cider vinegar be pasteurized?  Apple cider vinegar should not be pasteurized as pasteurization would eliminate the 'mother of vinegar' and also remove delicate nutrients and enzymes that may constitute a major portion of the food value of that consumable.  Therefore, only drink organic apple cider vinegar that is neither pasteurized (heated) nor filtered to ensure the enzymes and nutrients from the apple carry through to the cider vinegar.

Apple cider vinegar does not need to be refrigerated but it is recommended that you keep the drinks away from direct sunlight and in a cool location.  It is also recommended that you take apple cider vinegar together with water or juice as consuming it direct will cause discomfort to the stomach.

Is apple cider vinegar too acidic for the body?  Some people claim that that it is too acidic to drink apple cider vinegar.  But that is a fallacy.  Foods leave an acid or alkaline residue once they are completely burned to ash.  This is function of the type and amount of minerals present in the food.  Apple cider vinegar, because of its calcium and potassium mineral content, is alkaline forming in our body once it is burned to ash even though the original liquid is an acid.  And although the original liquid is an acid, its acidity is lower than that of commercial cola!