What is Apple Cider Vinegar?

What is Apple Cider Vinegar?
Other names: vinegar, ACV, acetic acid. Apple Cider vinegar is a type of vinegar by the fermentation of Apple Cider. During this process, sugar in the Apple Cider is broken down by bacteria and yeast into alcohol and then pickled.

Apple Cider Vinegar contains acetic (like other types of vinegar) acid and some lactic, citric and Malic acids.

In contrast to white vinegar, Apple Cider vinegar is a light yellowish brown color and is often sold unfiltered and unpasteurized with a dark, murky sediment called mother of vinegar (which consists mainly of acetic acid bacteria) were installed at the bottom of the bottle.
Unfiltered apple cider vinegar and not pasteurized is sold in health food stores, online and at some grocery stores.

Although other types of vinegar - like white vinegar, balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar and rice vinegar - mainly in the kitchen, used Apple Cider vinegar is mainly used for health purposes. Hippocrates said that they have been used as a tonic for health and American soldiers say they have been used to combat indigestion, pneumonia and scurvy.

But it wasn't until the book folk medicine: Guide to Vermont medical in good health, written by Dr. D.C. Jarvis, was published in 1958 taking off the medicinal use of Apple Cider vinegar. Jarvis recommended cider vinegar cider Apple as a panacea, explaining that it was exceptionally rich in potassium (compared to other food sources, is not). He said that you mix the vinegar Apple Cider with honey, a mixture called "honegar," improve the healing power of vinegar. Jarvis also wrote apple cider vinegar could destroy the harmful bacteria in the digestive tract and recommended as a digestive tonic to be consumed with meals.

Although the year departed not attracted much attention, the following year, folk medicine, became a bestseller and remained on the bestseller list for months. According to Time magazine, it sold over 245,000 copies in one week and received many testimonies of people that felt they benefited from the mixture of honey and Apple Cider Vinegar.

In the 1970s, Apple Cider Vinegar became popular once again, this time by the proponents that he had read the book of Jarvis and he suggested along with seaweed apple cider vinegar, lecithin and vitamin B6 may help people lose weight by speeding metabolism and fat burning at a faster pace.