ACV

hlwampler1

So my husband and I have started drinking the all natural, non filtered apple cider vinegar in the mornings. The health benefits are supposed to be amazing. (And not just aiding in weight loss.)

We just started. Does anyone else drink ACV? How long have you been? Have you noticed health benefits to it?

Chef_Barbell

Nope. It's nasty. It has no magical weight loss properties. Do a search and 3537351 topics will come up saying the same thing. It's awesome in pork.

AnvilHead

Here's some actual science about ACV, rather than advertising hype: http://sciencedrivennutrition.com/apple-cider-vinegar-evidence/

TavistockToad

:noway:

Macy9336

I prefer to drink scrumpy.

Tried30UserNames

I like the taste of a glass of water with a capful of ACV added to it, but I've never expected or noticed any health benefits. It just tastes good.

MelissaPhippsFeagins

My grandmother drank it because it helped her with digestive issues. She lived to be 83. I hate the stuff and would rather take my 84 year old dad's half an onion a day route.

AnnPT77

I've drunk it daily (shot glass full) as an n =1 experiment for weeks to months at a time, after reading that it might aid digestion among older folks who have subclinical stomach acid insufficiency. Do I have this? Dunno, but I'm old (61), have mild digestive system issues occasionally, figure the ACV won't hurt me, and like the taste, so why not?

Also, I like eating time-tested probiotic foods, speculatively, in case they might be good for gut microbiome diversity, as long as I find them tasty and unlikely to be harmful. (Research on gut microbiome is still in infancy, so no relevant science to support this.) Unpasteurized naturally-fermented ACV is probiotic.

Frankly, I've seen no huge effect at all, except the tastiness part. Shrug. Certainly no weight loss effect: I've done weeks of drinking it, and weeks of not drinking it, each while carefully logging eating & exercise, and saw no effect whatsoever on that front. The digestion question is more ambiguous, subjectively.

I do like ACV "shrub", a traditional sweetened, flavored vinegar concentrate, in my vodka cocktails, though. Highly recommended!

HeidiCooksSupper

AnvilHead wrote: »

Here's some actual science about ACV, rather than advertising hype: http://sciencedrivennutrition.com/apple-cider-vinegar-evidence/

This is a great citation. I just read it and, if anything, it is more positive than some other literature-based debunking sites. In a nutshell, there's very little evidence that ACV has much in the way of magical qualities. You need to balance its small effect on glucose spiking if you drink it before a high-carb meal versus its deleterious effect on your tooth enamel. Unless you enjoy drinking it, don't bother.

raquele3394

It works really well for yeast infection. Living testimony