(119)An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and so does a daily dose of apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is a type of vinegar made from apples and has a characteristic amber color.
Over the centuries, apple cider vinegar has been used for many purposes: making pickles, killing weeds, cleaning coffee makers, polishing armor, and dressing salads. Apple cider vinegar is also one of the most popular go-to ingredients in your kitchen, offering many natural health benefits.
It is rich in minerals, like potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, and copper, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, and E, bioflavonoids, and pectin. Moreover, due to its acetic acid content, apple cider vinegar helps your body absorb essential minerals from the foods you eat.
Here are the top 10 health benefits of apple cider vinegar. For best results, use organic, raw and unfiltered apple cider vinegar.
1. Controls Blood Sugar
Your body produces insulin to manage the level of sugar in your blood. The antiglycemic effects of apple cider vinegar help improve insulin sensitivity.
People who have insulin resistance should have a dose of apple cider vinegar with each meal. Mix one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar with one glass of filtered water.
Drink this three times daily to steady your stomach’s digestion rate, which in turn increases the time your body has to process new sugars and keeps your blood sugar levels more stable.
2. Whitens Teeth
If you are embarrassed because you have yellow teeth, apple cider vinegar is a cheap and simple way to restore your teeth’s natural pearly white sheen. Apple cider vinegar helps remove stains and kill bacteria in your mouth and gums.
All you need to do is gargle with apple cider vinegar every morning and then brush your teeth as usual. Regularly eating apples also helps, as the crunchy fruit scrubs your teeth like a toothbrush.
3. Treats Constipation
Apple cider vinegar contains pectin, a water-soluble fiber that promotes bowel movements. This makes it a great natural treatment for constipation.
Add two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to a glass of water and drink it three times a day. You can add apple or grape juice to the mix to make it more palatable.
4. Promotes Weight Loss
Regular consumption of raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar can also promote weight loss. Apple cider vinegar is a good source of acetic acid.
Studies have found that obese people who consumed acetic acid daily for 12 weeks enjoyed a significant decrease in body weight, abdominal fat, waist circumference, and triglycerides. The acetic acid also helps prevent buildup of body fat and certain liver fats.
5. Nourishes Hair
A solution of apple cider vinegar and water, mixed in equal proportions, makes a wonderful natural hair conditioner. It helps nourish the hair, giving it a shine and soft texture.
It’s also effective as a home remedy for dandruff. Apple cider vinegar destroys the fungus that causes dandruff and restores the pH balance of the scalp.
To treat dandruff, apply a 50/50 mixture of water and apple cider vinegar to the scalp, leave it on for 15 minutes to an hour and then rinse it out. Follow this remedy once or twice in a week.
6. Gives Glowing Skin
Apple cider vinegar can help treat blemishes, reduce wrinkles and tone your skin. For blemishes, apple cider vinegar is a good astringent. Soak a cotton pad in diluted apple cider vinegar and dab it on your blemishes to dry them out and help them heal.
To minimize the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, soak a cotton pad in diluted apple cider vinegar and apply it to the areas you want to treat. It will help tighten and plump up your skin a bit.
To use as a toner, mix half a cup of apple cider vinegar with a cup of water and apply it all over your face. Regular use of this solution will help maintain the pH balance in your skin and prevent various types of skin infections.
Acid stomach I was miserable drank 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar.
First 3 seconds feel vinegar go down after that acid went away! Tried this a second time a few days later same great relief! Acid has not returned!
Yep! I thought the people telling me to do that were crazy also!!!!!!!
Hi Sandra, Just wanted to know if you diluted it before consuming it. Is it to be taken before or after meals. How long should it be taken before it can cure a person completely.
Joseph
Joseph,
I take about 1 and a half or 2 tbs in the morning before breakfast and one in the evening before dinner, it has helped with any heartburn, acid re flux issues. I find though after a few weeks if I miss even one time taking it I can notice. This is definitely something you need to stick with to reap the benefits of. It’s also great for keeping you “regular”.
Sandra, vinegar is acidic. You stomach problem was most likely because you did not have enough acid, rather your stomach was alkali and the vinegar corrected it.
I always use apple cider viniger but now I am going back to it.
can i use American Garden Apple cider vinegar
Use organic ACV
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I keep this stuff in the house…I also like to put it into my bath water sometimes for cleansing purposes. I have not purchased a doucchhe in about 10 years…Vinegar does the trick. 🙂
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every morning my stomach feels discomfort but when i started taking a mixture of acv and water i noticed that it’s gone.
someone has rightly said,AN APPLLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY.
I have started using Apple Cider Vinegar
2 Table Spoon in 250 ml of Water 3 times
daily before meal for Weightloss.
Do advise me in detail if any, Thanking.
I just seen your comment about using apple cider vinegar for what loss. I was wondering what your results where.
If having problems with ACV on your stomach, you’re taking too much at once. Begin with 1-2 teasps in 6-8 oz of water and if still experiencing stomach pain, add a pinch of baking soda before the water until you no longer need the BS. Also, start with with once a day moving to twice a day before meals. I drink my ACV with tea first thing in the morning and again about an hour before bed. It’s quite enough for me. Like everything we do or take for our health slow and easy, but with CONSISTENCY is always the better path to accurately gauge long term positive or negative affects. By no means should you drink ACV w/o a straw and not rinse your mouth with plain water after drinking it. It will sheer off the enamel on your teeth. So drink it at one sitting; then rinse your mouth with water.
Hi – u say under no circumstances to take ACV without using a straw – but u recommend gargling with it? Tks
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Just wondering what your best remedy for eyelid cyst would be?
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Just wondering if you received any information about cysts on eyelids, as I have a couple small ones on my eyelid. Thank you.
HI, I had a eye cyst about eight years ago removed by surgery. Then about five years ago it came back so I used castoroil ….by rubbing it on the cyst until it disappeared. Now I used castor oil for things like tooth inflamatiom, gaggle mouth,pains, even danduff and most ailments …..with excellent results…..
How should I take acv to loose weight..
Cancel reply I will be back later on. thank you
Every store sells it.
Thanks for the informative article .. Will try it ..& ..then inform/confirm the benefits.
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You can use Baking Soda, if you are washing it in a sink. But if you want to run it thuogrh, your apple cider vinegar will work fine . I have a stove top, and sometimes I use,” Fume Free Easy Off Oven Cleaner” in the blue can. That really cleans it. My Mom used to get a product called, “Dip- It” and ran that thuogrh hers. Byee, I’m going to have my coffee now!
What do you recommend for the dosage of ACV in the promotes weight loss category? (#4)
But i can’t find ACV anywhere…i mean i tried in many shops bt i can’t found it…can anybody tell me frm should i buy ACV?????
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Find your local health food shop. Simple 😉
Don’t know where you are but ACV should be found in any grocery store with the white vinegar?? At least here in the US it is.
Whether ACV help in shrinking fibroid uterus how much dose will you recommend
RAW AND UNFILTERED APPLE CIDER VINEGAR is very hard to find. Most likely to be found at health food and vitamin stores, Chinese vegetable, some supermarkets are starting. Bragg’s, RAW AND UNFILTERED is the best!
This can b found @ any big box store, Bragg’s. I buy mine @ Kroger. It’s so popular, most everywhere has it. Specialty/health stores VERY expensive. Pintrest has a lot devoted to it.
Hi, I’m from ireland and I have just started to use ACV, I started drinking it deluted twice a day and using it as a toner deluted also. Well, what a result. Everything I heard about the benefits of taking ACV is true. I’m telling you try it….
Most grocery stores carry Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) in the are of dressings and pickles and etv.
apple cider vinegar is found in most grocery stores
you can buy it online ~ Google it…it’s pretty cheap!
You can get ACV in any health food store, but make sure it’s organic and has the mother
They say Braggs is the best cause it has the mother in it , you should shake before each use. The floaters in it are just particles of apples. I sip mine slowly like a glass of tea.
You can easily get it online
is apple cider vinegar for o+ blood type
Yes it is the only vinegar in the list for type o’s in eat right for your type
Hey I started to used apple cider and it did wonder for me , I loose 28lbs in couple I f months and feel great, thank for information..
can u give me the formula pls… 😉 thank u..
Yes it is, I know this because I am o+.
Hi I have ACV and been using it in a Glass of water, 1 table spoon for weight loss , or is their another way, please can you help.
Where can I get Apple cider vinegar. please let me know the source of supply
it is in the grocery store where the white vinegar and cooking supplies are it is next the jugs of white vinegar – Walmart has it too!
kroger, walmart gets braggs with the mother looks dirty on the bottom.
You got that! Dirty on the bottom, called the, “mother.” The Best!
It is tastier than red wine vinegar too.
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I started to use ACV almost 3 months and my cholesterol, fat liver, migraine, sign of diabetic is all normal according to my blood test, but I did not lose kilo only I notice that I can wear my jeans size 40 ( was size 42 ) my fat belly starting to become flat also this winter I got sore throat but I drink 1 tablespoon ACV the first thing in the morning and you can feel it is burning in the throat do this until the sore throat or colds are over,, on lunch drink one tbs ACV with one glass apple juice evening 1 tbs ACV before bed within 3 months go to the doctor for best result <<<, I don't mean everybody will have the same result depends on a person? drink a lot of apple juice, water eat what u want but less fatty meat, no soft drinks, less sugar, less salt lastly control you're eating hobby 🙂
Well said! Drink a lot of pure water (which is hard to get ~ even bottled water has some fluoride in it!!!) Most juices even have it…after all they use water! If possible get Himalayan Pink Salt…..it has many good minerals! (you can buy it online). Our bodies need salt, but not the kind that’s had everything good removed from it. Soft drinks are the worst thing you can do to your body. I got off them months ago and have lost 30-40 lbs. Also I have to mention organic food only ~ NO GMOs. (genetically modified organisms ~ check it out on youtube.com if you haven’t heard about what Monsanto and others have done to our food) I couldn’t get enough veggies ~ for some reason my body craved them. I don’t like cooking, but couldn’t find what I wanted at any restaurant so I was forced to make my own 🙂 For the past several months I bought lots of fresh veggies and some fruits from the farmers’ market….OMG. Really fantastic and now I wonder what I’ll do over the winter??? There are a number of good stores near me carrying organic food….so I’ll survive!
Apple cider vinegar works great for sore throats I have been using it for years even from my kids I have them gargle first and then swallow it instant relief thank you for all the information
i love ur page very good when it comes to health issue,ACV can also be use for sore throat,add salt and warm water to it and gaggle.
Bragg is the best brand of apple cider vinegar!!! It has the( MOTHER ) in it.
@ramona: Exactly! I’ve been using it for years. It great for weight loss. It burns fat, and ppl have been asking me, am I losing weight and what am I doing. I tell them, it’s Bragg Apple Cider. *smiles*
I love to hear these story’s that they for people I believe in natural remedy thanks for posting
All remedies are good. Plz telll me home remedies for gall bladder stone or hormonal imbalance
where can i buy apple cidar vinegar is it available in the supermarket?
Oh Thank You So Much For This Information… Thanks Alot
Kindly tell the dosage of acv for weight loss
For weight loss 2 tablespoon with 6 to 8 oz glass water half an hour before every meal and 2 days a week do 12 hour fasting with lots of fluid all day and vegetable juice with spinach and your choice of fruit .you will cee the difference
I love this page, but I don’t really see it that often. Question, for weight loss, how much ACV and when are you suppose to drink it, is there a certain amount of time before each meal? Thank you.
I have used apple cider vinegar for years for severe leg cramps !! 1 Tablespoon of apple cider vinegar chase down quickly with water !! Takes the leg cramps away in about 5 to 10 mins. works every time !
very helpful
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nice to hear that ACV is good for leg cramp i will use it and see the result , it’s really a pain in the neck especially when i have party a night before ,I like home remedy and this is agood site keep us in loop for any new things especially because I don’t like medicine
Thanx a lot ……could u suggest any good brand’s……!
My dog suffers badly with yeast infections and i have tried every prescribed medication going to get it under control but to no avail. Just started using apple cider vinegar today with the mother in it to see if this combats the problem
Apple Cider Vinegar Is A Very Good Home Remedy For So Many Ailments.
Keep It Up, Please.
Apple cider vinegar is so very useful and help in many ways….Thanks a lot for posting the benefits and uses of ACV.More Power ans God Blss you all always.
Thank I was looking for some think for cholesterol hope it work for me so I will try cav
Thanks for your incisive write up on ACV. Ive been using it for weight losd and have introduced it to quite a number of friends, just to add that when ever I take it it makes me to pee more often. in the evenings am sure going to pe at times upto thrice before dawn. I dont know if others share similar experience. I also use ACV as an after shave and the result is excellent
Thanks, now I know, have been experiencing this.
Braggs apple cider is the best!!
I suffered with thrush (candida albicans) all my young adult life. Finally I discovered that drinking ACV three to four times a day (one capful in a shot glass of water) can cure me of the problem. It balances the ph of the body back to a slight acidity which makes it hard for thrush (a fungal infection) to proliferate. Fungal infections love a slightly alkaline environment and so also a dilute application to the infected area three times a day, as well as drinking ACV three times a day can should guarantee a complete cure.
Speaking of ACV, iam from the Philippines is it ok if i used this ACV from the grocery? please reply.
Bragg Organic Aplle Cider Vinegar is available here in the Phils. I bought mine at HiTop in Quezon Ave QC but it was the Apple-Cinnamon. I used to buy the plain Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar at Cherry Supermarket but it closed down already.
Buy at SM mall. Healthy Options, abt 400 pesos for big bottle
Just be sure to buy organic with “the mother lode” ~ you can see something floating inside the bottle.
where will i get organic acv, in shop on bottle it is written as acv only, is that helpful for high blood pressure?
i have been taking acv for the past three months but have learnt from this article that it combats leg cramps it seems the cramps are not going away but all other ailments have vanished
Hi,
Yes I too have heard that apple cider vinegar is very good for dandruff and oily hair problems.
I used ACV 1 TBSPOON of ACV for yeast infection and it worked for me
Wow ladies, good information about these ACV ,I just loved it,I use it after conditioner ,I just take 2 lids of it, add to half mug of water, rinse it, again just use a mug of water for wash hair, the result is , you end up seeing a shine, it’s awesome feel, but after going through bundle of tips,I would for sure follow it religiously. Thanks all
All very good comments on the use of Apple ? Cider Vinegar. Amazing what the apple can do
Did you know that it was Not an Apple that Eve gave to Adam? It was the Pomegranate …too bad cuz.I like these too! LoL ?
hey all….I noticed that someone said that the body’s ph has to be slightly acidic to be healthy….that’s incorrect coz its actually the other way round. the body has to be slightly alkaline to be healthy because in that state it is oxygen rich and many diseases such as cancer hate an oxygen rich environment so the diseases cannot survive. Apple cider has an acidic ph but its effect on the body is alkalizing thus its ability to fight off yeast infections. The same gig is with lemon juice, although it has a ph of 2, its effects to the body are very alkalizing. Note that taking these with filtered water is SUPER important!!!!!! coz tap water with all the chlorine. flouride and heavy metals is not anybodys best friend. I hope this helps somebody…..
Thanks Ginger. Great advice. X
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My mom always used apple cider vinegar in cooking, salad dressings, added to potatoe salad, etc. I never knew about white vinegar until I met my inlaws….but I now know why my mom used apple cider vinegar. I am throwing out the bottle of white vinegar and getting a gallon of cider ! !
Thank you for all your wise comments and valuable advise on apple cider vinegar. Coming across this today is no coincident. This is my personal miracle. Bless you all.
Having problem with my splitting nails and very slow growth. I’ll try acd if it will work. Will come back to you if it did. Thanks.
im going to try out on a few things
need us dilute it or pure we can consume
I have used apple cider vinegar for years I have given it to my children when they were young and had sore throats I have them gargle with it first and then swallow it and this did the trick no more pain I love your comments and your information
I love this site & god bless you all.
God bless
Indeed, very educative.
thanks
Thks for the positive comments I am gona try ACV
hi there
very good info keep up the good work just to ask
is apple vinegar same as apple cider vinegar? because I cant seem to find acv it here in south of africa
Apple cider is good for lots of things , but , remember to rinse your mouth after you take it, because it is hard on the enamel on your teeth
My husband use to suffer with athlete’s foot & he used ACV to finally get rid of it. I bought a gallon of cider vinegar &
poured it into a foot soaking pan, then he added a tray of ice cubes & just enough water to cover the foot. He would
soak for 30 minutes & then dry them with a towel. The house smelled like a pickling solution but it cured his problem.
You keep pouring the CV back into the bottle & when you get ready to soak again just add a tray of ice cubes. He
started out soaking 2 times a week & increased to 3 times. Each time he noticed the healing of his feet & when he
was cleared up he quit the soaking. He was a WW2 navy veteran & he suffered a lot before finding the right cure to be as simple as buying a gallon jug of cider vinegar. We bought many kinds of sprays & creams that didn’t do the job.
Thanks to ACV fungal infection gone but l`m left with fungal spot its now a year what can l possibly use to clear the spots
I just want to leave out their if you don’t like the taste add some to unsweetened tea or natural orange juice(no added sugar basically) and it will have the same effect
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apple cider means that we found in market as a drinks.or it is diffrent
this blog is the most useful thing i’ve come across. thank you so much for posting such informative and helpful stuff.
I drink apple cider vinegar everyday for arthritis I have arthritis in my knees that acts up if I drink this everyday I don’t have a problem
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I have to say that this website is one of the most informative sites I have come across.. and I believe me I have read loads in my time. I have suffered from gastro reflux for several years and have searched the web for natural solutions….. I’ve found a combination of acv and sodium bicarbonate works wonders. Instant relieve. However, I find if I stop taking this for a week it returns. Thanks for the helpful information posted… I will continue to frequent this site for updates.
This is a wonderfully websites, have really appreciated,thanks a lots