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5 Tips To Pick The Right Apple Cider Vinegar

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From your mother and grandmother’s generation to some of your friends, there are a lot of people who know the benefits of apple cider vinegar.  But unfortunately, there are a number of people who are purchasing the wrong kind of ACV.


One thing to remember when purchasing any kind of ACV is that your apple cider vinegar should be unpasteurized. Pasteurization is heating used to kill harmful bacteria. Unfortunately, the heating process will kill good bacteria as well. Which is why we need unpasteurized.

Here are five other tips to get the best apple cider vinegar:

5. The Uglier The Better

You will often find refined, clear, crystal and sparkling vinegar on the shelves in the supermarkets. They are beautiful but not the best. Ugliest is the best. The supermarket sparkling vinegar is processed, artificially flavored and may be overheated and pasteurized. Such types of vinegar is devoid of many healthy and beneficial micro-nutrients. However, some supermarkets may also sell the raw and organic. Make sure you read the label before you buy.

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4. No Plastic Bottles

Plastic bottles may contain toxic material and any drink in contact with plastic material may have more harm than its benefits. Some companies might offer BPA free plastic bottles which are generally considered safer to use. However, my personal experience is that you will rarely find plastic bottles certified as BPA free.

3. Look For Certified

Buying certified organic is doing great justice to your health. Avoiding non-organic or GMO food is one of the…


… best ways to safeguard your health from harmful chemicals, pesticides and insecticides. Read the label and buy only if it is certified as organic.

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2. Ooh Baby I Like It Raw

Raw ACV is some of the best apart from being organic, you will find that the real value and micro nutrients are in the raw ACV. Raw means that it does not undergo any chemical process or filtration to make it clear. No chemicals or artificial flavors are added to it to make it tasty. ACV which undergoes filtration and processing do not have the useful nutrients as they are lost in the process. Raw simply means unfiltered, unprocessed, unpasteurized and unheated.

1. Buy With Your Mother in Mind

What is the Mother? The mother in ACV is the brown stuff which you find floating at the bottom of the bottle of apple cider vinegar. It seems quite yucky. But that is the best bit. It is the result of fermentation. It contains all the enzymes and live bacteria which make the apple cider vinegar so full of healthy stuff.

 

Some of the great brands that are out there include Braggs, Vitacost, Fleischmann’s, NOW Foods and Aztec.

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