Apple cider vinegar
Sm3018
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What are your thoughts on apple cider vinegar? Does it really suppress your appetite?
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No, unless you find it nauseating and thus don't want to eat anything.
I assume you mean drinking ACV diluted in water. Drinking a glass of water can often have a temporary appetite-suppressant effect, because now your stomach has something sloshing around inside it. You don't have to put ACV in it.
ACV is tasty in some sauces and salad dressings, and works well in place of malt vinegar on fries/chips.17 -
The only thing drinking ACV made me lose was my will to live.
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Great to make NC bbq sauce for pulled pork.. 😁6
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So far, it's the best fly trap I've ever had. After just a few hours, hundreds of dead fruit flies. Very effective. Very gross. Appetite successfully killed.
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It doesn't do that for me.
I drank ACV daily for weeks at a time while losing weight and logging meticulously, and didn't drink it at all for other weeks at a time under the same circumstances. It made no difference in my weight loss rate, and had no observable effect on my appetite, cravings, or other relevant subjective factors.
Unlike others here, I like it.
Someone will chime in soon to say it's terrible for your teeth or esophagus or something, but it's no more acidic than many common beverages (various juices, soda pop, energy drinks, etc.) even before it's diluted. It just tastes more tart because of not being sweetened and such. Diluting it (which I don't do) makes it even less acidic.8 -
So far, it's the best fly trap I've ever had. After just a few hours, hundreds of dead fruit flies. Very effective. Very gross. Appetite successfully killed.
Thanks for this! 🙂
I've been leaving the door to the garden open, and my place got inundated. I like fruit and that's become a problem.3 -
I found it helped with digestion and skin but it is an acid so drink with a straw so you don’t damage your teeth if you have it regularly10
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NorthCascades wrote: »So far, it's the best fly trap I've ever had. After just a few hours, hundreds of dead fruit flies. Very effective. Very gross. Appetite successfully killed.
Thanks for this! 🙂
I've been leaving the door to the garden open, and my place got inundated. I like fruit and that's become a problem.
I put the vinigar in a bowl, stretch cling film across, poke very small pin holes in the cling film, then collect fruit flies that can’t escape.
Lots of fruit in our garden that needs gathering and processing right now so the flies become very interested.
Cheers, h.3 -
middlehaitch wrote: »NorthCascades wrote: »So far, it's the best fly trap I've ever had. After just a few hours, hundreds of dead fruit flies. Very effective. Very gross. Appetite successfully killed.
Thanks for this! 🙂
I've been leaving the door to the garden open, and my place got inundated. I like fruit and that's become a problem.
I put the vinigar in a bowl, stretch cling film across, poke very small pin holes in the cling film, then collect fruit flies that can’t escape.
Lots of fruit in our garden that needs gathering and processing right now so the flies become very interested.
Cheers, h.
Yep. Also add a drop of dish soap, it breaks the surface tension so they don't just float on top.6 -
middlehaitch wrote: »NorthCascades wrote: »So far, it's the best fly trap I've ever had. After just a few hours, hundreds of dead fruit flies. Very effective. Very gross. Appetite successfully killed.
Thanks for this! 🙂
I've been leaving the door to the garden open, and my place got inundated. I like fruit and that's become a problem.
I put the vinigar in a bowl, stretch cling film across, poke very small pin holes in the cling film, then collect fruit flies that can’t escape.
Lots of fruit in our garden that needs gathering and processing right now so the flies become very interested.
Cheers, h.
Yep. Also add a drop of dish soap, it breaks the surface tension so they don't just float on top.
Ooh I don’t know why I never thought of that. So obvious.
Cheers, h.1 -
I read an article where Cheryl Cole said ACV and celery juice were the secrets of her weight loss regime. The explanation was the ACV binds to carbs and makes you feel full for longer.
If the website had a woo button I would have used it.19 -
Apple cider vinegar is more useful as a cleaning product than it is something to help you lose weight.4
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I read an article where Cheryl Cole said ACV and celery juice were the secrets of her weight loss regime. The explanation was the ACV binds to carbs and makes you feel full for longer.
If the website had a woo button I would have used it.
Oops, I nearly woo'd you.
I just wonder how binding something with fairly few calories and mass to specifically carbs makes you full longer. Maybe if ACV comes with little suction cups that effectively suction the food to the walls of the stomach, while protecting it from stomach acid (an acid offering protection against acid?), and thus it stays there for longer
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There are lots of threads on here about it, and the fact that it's just a load of nonsense, the BBC did a little study on it and they said the same. It's acid, it's not good for you.6
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Jackie9003 wrote: »There are lots of threads on here about it, and the fact that it's just a load of nonsense, the BBC did a little study on it and they said the same. It's acid, it's not good for you.
Just for clarity it’s not bad for you, it just does nothing in terms of fat loss, cleansing or any of the other wild claims you see touted.
Plenty of acids in daily foods, after all! I use it in a lot of recipes, just like I use many other acids.8 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »Jackie9003 wrote: »There are lots of threads on here about it, and the fact that it's just a load of nonsense, the BBC did a little study on it and they said the same. It's acid, it's not good for you.
Just for clarity it’s not bad for you, it just does nothing in terms of fat loss, cleansing or any of the other wild claims you see touted.
Plenty of acids in daily foods, after all! I use it in a lot of recipes, just like I use many other acids.
I meant drinking it neat is not good, in recipes it's fine.5 -
I don't think drinking it neat is bad either - unless in ridiculous copious quantity, but that goes for any food.
I don't drink it or use it in any way at all myself and I certainly don't believe any magic claims about it - but it isn't bad for you to drink if you want to.
It just doesn't do anything special.2 -
I go through a largish bottle of flavored vinegar every two or three weeks. It’s low cal so I use it as salad dressing, marinade, in stir fry, on top of cottage cheese, yogurt and fruit. If vinegar were magic, I’d either be jacked, or have vanished altogether. I just checked. I’m neither.7
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Jackie9003 wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »Jackie9003 wrote: »There are lots of threads on here about it, and the fact that it's just a load of nonsense, the BBC did a little study on it and they said the same. It's acid, it's not good for you.
Just for clarity it’s not bad for you, it just does nothing in terms of fat loss, cleansing or any of the other wild claims you see touted.
Plenty of acids in daily foods, after all! I use it in a lot of recipes, just like I use many other acids.
I meant drinking it neat is not good, in recipes it's fine.
Drinking it neat is no worse, based on acidity, than numerous common beverages.
ACV at the standard commercial 5% dilution runs around pH 3.3-3.5 (some other vinegars can be lower, i.e., more acidic), as I understand it. (Diluting it with water raises the pH, making it less acidic, since water is higher pH).
Clearly, limiting all corrosive drinks is a good plan (according to the ADA), but ACV isn't likely a special scary case.
https://www.ada.org/en/~/media/ADA/Public Programs/Files/JADA_The pH of beverages in the United States
(NOTE: Unfortunately, the MFP editor seems unable to correctly handle that URL. You may need to cut'n'paste it into your browser if you want to read the American Dental Association article about acidity of common beverages.).0 -
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More or less. They LOVE it. So I set out a little tupperware with some ACV and a drop of dish soap, cover it in plastic wrap, poke a couple holes and watch as they swarm in, get stuck, then drown.
Red wine vinegar (my preferred cooking vinegar) works pretty well also.2 -
More or less. They LOVE it. So I set out a little tupperware with some ACV and a drop of dish soap, cover it in plastic wrap, poke a couple holes and watch as they swarm in, get stuck, then drown.
Red wine vinegar (my preferred cooking vinegar) works pretty well also.
Do the fruit flies lose more weight dying in the ACV or the RWV?
I love ACV. I love anything that is bracingly acidic though. I dumped 350 grams of cucumbers in ACV and my homemade seasoning blend then ate the whole bowl with my lunch. It help me maintain a deficit but does nothing for fat loss.11 -
So far, it's the best fly trap I've ever had. After just a few hours, hundreds of dead fruit flies. Very effective. Very gross. Appetite successfully killed.
Yes! It's even more effective with a drop of soap. It's not my favorite use (using it in cooking is preferable), but it' works really well for catching and killing fruit flies.2 -
The missus and I infuse ACV with an array of good stuff (horseradish, habaneros, onion, ginger, lots of fruit, etc.); she uses it on salads. I take a straight shot of it every morning, which hasn't had any change regarding my appetite, but has allowed me to breath fire and see through time.13
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More or less. They LOVE it. So I set out a little tupperware with some ACV and a drop of dish soap, cover it in plastic wrap, poke a couple holes and watch as they swarm in, get stuck, then drown.
Red wine vinegar (my preferred cooking vinegar) works pretty well also.
You watch them drown? That's just mean. 😂0 -
More or less. They LOVE it. So I set out a little tupperware with some ACV and a drop of dish soap, cover it in plastic wrap, poke a couple holes and watch as they swarm in, get stuck, then drown.
Red wine vinegar (my preferred cooking vinegar) works pretty well also.
Cool. I may try this next time I notice some fruit flies.0 -
I JUST discovered an awesome use for ACV. My dog got skunked last week. Direct shot, up close and personal. When the smell hit me as she walked back through the door, I couldn't even identify it as skunk it was so strong--eyes burning, trying not to puke--strong.
Into the tub with her and somewhere in my brain I remembered reading that skunk stuff was an oil, so decided to give vinegar a try since it is a magnificent oil/grease cutter. I cut it 50% with water and bathed her in it (used almost half a gallon of ACV, lol!) It worked!
BUT my house still stank something fierce. So I boiled the ACV on the stove for awhile and that helped a lot, though it took a few sessions.
Sorry nothing to do with weight loss, but I was just amazed at how well it deskunked.
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The smell of ACV would definitely be the lesser of two evils.
Glad it helped! 
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Isn't the kind of ACV with the "mother" supposed to be a source of probiotics? That's about the only actual health benefit I know of.
It works well to keep your apples from browning after you cut them! And since it's apple based, it doesn't make your apples taste different.
I've also used it in my shampoo to clear product buildup and dandruff. Works really well for that!
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