Rate Your Apple Cider Vinegar

#1

Rate your Apple Cider Vinegar. I need a smooth one

I have started enjoying ACV and it seems to helping with digestion. Until recently I thought they were all the same but I noticed a comment that some were particularly smooth.

I recently bought one made by Eden foods that I liked.

I found I liked this much better than the Trader Joe’s store brand or the Vermont Village I got at Costco which I tried today

I have never tried Braggs, is it worth it? Any other brands I should try? I drink a couple of ounces a day so can go through a bottle a week

(Sophie) #2

Interesting…I’ve only ever used the Braggs so I have nothing to compare it to. I’m going to keep an eye on this thread. Thanks for posting!

(Chris) #3

I’ve used Bragg’s and I think Heinz unfiltered, and there was one other brand at Walmart. Definitely preferred the Bragg’s the flavor of the other two seemed off to me, can’t really place it. Since going ZC I haven’t bothered with the stuff but if consuming plants I think it’s definitely worthwhile to supplement with it.

(Garry (Canada)) #4

I get this at my local (Canadian) Costco for $6.99 --same quality as the Bragg’s but 1/4 the price.

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#5

I have a bottle of it (from Thrive Market) and I actually haven’t opened it yet.

…I have some apple cider vinegar but oddly enough I’ve never tasted it or had any experience with it.

#6

I am totally unpicky when it comes to ACV, just love the stuff, but I do usually get the one from ALDI with the “mother,” since it’s supposed to have more health benefits and the ALDI one is much cheaper.

(Troy) #7

Yeah. Just Braggs so far🤔
Nothing to compare it too
Rather inexpensive, so it lasts me a decent amount of time

(Bunny) #8

Unfiltered ORGANIC (lots of floaters) :+1:

(TJ Borden) #9

:joy::joy::joy:

In other words, if you’re still one of those omnivores, and haven’t been enlightened to carnivore yet.

(A ham loving ham! - VA6KD) #10

Occasionally SuperStore has the Braggs ACV on a steep discounted sale and that’s when I buy a dozen bottles or so…only I forgot about and left my latest stash in my (unheated) garage this winter and most of the bottles cracked and leaked everywhere. The garage has a most bizarre aroma about it now!

#11

Biona Organic Cider Vinegar (with Mother) - 5lt. bottle £14.99. Several suppliers in the UK.
We get ours from our local organic farm shop where we get our meat supplies cut to order from grass fed animals. Nothing better than supporting local traders.
KCKO… :slight_smile:

#12

If you buy ACV in bulk (by the gallon), make sure it is not just distilled white vinegar with color and flavorings added. Some makers do that such as the gallons of Heinz from Costco (a few years ago). I’m not that picky and buy it by the gallon, and have found cheaper store brands have been more likely to be the real thing. Look at the ingredients - the real stuff says simply ‘apple cider vinegar’ diluted with water.

Or you could experiment and make your own… though the mother (gelatinous mass of bacteria) can look kind of gross.

(Vladaar Malane) #13

I had cheap generic version, I don’t remember what it was called but it didn’t have the “mother” in it as they say. It was cheapest kind wife found. It was very much more vinegar tasting.

The braggs kind I have now with the Mother is more pleasant tasting, not as vinegar acid-like as the other.

That’s what I noticed, I have no idea on any difference in overall effectiveness because I haven’t a comparison in time of any quantity that would do that.

(JGL) #14

I am fairly certain that the Heinz brand is a flavored vinegar but not actually AVC proper with the probiotic effect. Every bottle of it I have seen, the label said “flavored” and the ingredient list said “distilled white vinegar, flavoring”…which… I am confused about the utility of such a product but that is the world we live in now, I guess.

(CharleyD) #15

I think a good comparison test for ACV with and without Mother to see how it impacts BG would be something like a kraft blood glucose test over a couple hours, given say 20g of sugar/jellybeans take measurements closer in. Maybe 15 or 20 mins?

See if taking a shot with Mother (allegedly 2 tsp is as good as 2oz) prior to eating slows the absorption of the sugar compared to filtered ACV, compared to no ACV. You’d expect the peak to be lower and possibly further out, than when you eat the sugar without ACV.

Sound fun?

(Chris) #16

Was it their unfiltered version? I am not near a store, but they had 2 kinds of ACV from that brand. One clear and one with mother. You could still be right though, I never checked the ingredients.

(JGL) #17

It was the clear version. I haven’t seen the unfiltered kind with the mother, but I did just google it and I was pleased to see it exists. I have only ever seen the clear kind. It seems like the sort of thing that, at least near me in Manhattan, a regular grocery store stocks the clear flavored version but health food stores near me tends to carry Braggs and Vermont Village but don’t carry something as mainstream as Heinz. So I think from a consumer demand/market segmentation perspective, I am perhaps just unlikely to bump into this fabled Heinz with mother in the store!

(Ethan) #18

You will find it at any organic story. Moms has it.

(Sophie) #19

I’ve thought about making my own vinegar but had a feeling that finding a mother would be challenging to say the least. Has anyone here made vinegar and have any tips? I think it’s supposed to be pretty easy to do.

#20

Yes, I have played around with it. My first attempt was to buy some Braggs with the mother, and put that it some fermented apple juice. ( I used champagne yeast purchased on ebay) Turns out the mother was not alive. Not sure if that is true of all Braggs vinegars, but it wouldn’t be a surprise.

Then I tried to ‘catch’ my own mother from the air. It was years ago, so I am forgetting the precise details. The trick is to get fruit flies with inoculant bacteria on their feet to land on something that you can culture. Very often banana peels and a liquid are used to attract them. (But on keto, who’s eating bananas?). An internet search would help.

I eventually did get a nice thriving mother to grow. It was a thick, ‘gelatinous’ floating mass on the top of the liquid. I tried to make several types of vinegars, from apple to persimmon to wine. It produced some interesting flavors (not the persimmon) but eventually I lost interest.

The mother was easy to divide in order to start other cultures. But it takes time to get a good vinegar. And it does attract fruit flies. In the end, I just let it go and now buy all my vinegar. But it was a fun learning experience.

The people who seemed to have the best luck making good vinegars were wine drinkers who would put the ends of finer bottles and kept their vinegars going.