Super Healthy Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

Unfiltered apple cider vinegar is an amazingly versatile remedy, nutritious supplement and super healthy kitchen essential all rolled up into one. First of all; let us have a quick at the benefits that can be derived from the consumption of apple cider vinegar, we will then move on to making some for ourselves.

The Benefits of Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

The Mother: With regards to apple cider vinegar the mother is the cobweb-like sediment at the bottom of the bottle. What this means is that if you can see the mother in the bottom of the apple cider vinegar jar you can be reassured that the vinegar is unpasteurized, unfiltered and nutrient-rich.

Mineral Content: Apple Cider Vinegar contains the following critical minerals that are so vitally essential to your all round good health and well being: calcium, chlorine, fluorine, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and sulfur

Cardiovascular Benefits: Ways in which apple cider vinegar delivers cardiovascular health benefits include the lowering of a user’s blood pressure.

Plaque Reduction: Apple cider vinegar also plays a role in greatly reducing the quantity and rate of plaque formation and ongoing plaque deposition and buildup in the major arterial blood vessels such as the aorta and the coronary arteries.

Pocket Valves: The consumption of apple cider vinegar can also be directly linked to reducing the plaque buildup on the internal pocket valves of the body’s major blood vessels. This reduction in cardiovascular pathology in turn translates to a greater all round cardiovascular fitness.

Cholesterol: One mechanism by which the consumption of apple cider vinegar contributes directly to the above cardiovascular benefits is achieved through the influence that apple cider vinegar can exert in reducing your “bad” cholesterol levels.

Calcium Absorption: Apple cider vinegar helps in the extraction and absorption of calcium from what you eat. This results in your body having greater levels of calcium available for metabolic processes. This property of apple cider vinegar is something that all of those afflicted by osteoporosis should look into.

Toxic Wastes: The potassium contained in apple cider vinegar acts to assist the body in the removal of toxic wastes (detoxification).

Beta-Carotene: Beta-carotene helps proactively to aid the body in countering the damage caused by free radicals. It also helps with repairing said damage.

Malic Acid: The malic acid fights found in apple cider vinegar plays a key role in assisting our bodies to resist and fight fungal and bacterial infections. It is also reported to provide relieve to those suffering from joint pain.

Other Benefits: Other benefits that can be gained from the consumption of apple cider vinegar include relief of constipation and bloating.

All-Round, All Purpose Get Well Remedy

Here is a simple to prepare supplement that is commonly used all around the globe to help facilitate a rapid recovery for the sick. Add one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar to a mug and then 90% fill the mug with hot water. Give it a quick stir and then gradually stir in two teaspoons of honey.

Making Your Own Apple Cider Vinegar

1. Select a large bowl/container/jar for use as a fermentation vat
2. Wash and peel 2 Kg of apples. Keep peelings and the rest of the fruit separate. It is the apple peelings that are to be used in the making of the apple cider vinegar. The rest of the fruit (the flesh) can be put to other uses such as stewing the apples, use in making apple sauce or to make apple pies etc.
3. With the apple peel in the container that is going to be used as the fermentation vessel add enough water to ensure that all of the apple peelings are covered
4. Now cover the fermentation container and place in a warm place that is rarely disturbed (air closet for example). Leave to ferment.
5. Don’t forget to regularly checkup on the apple cider vinegar’s progress from time to time. Remove (skim off) the scum that collects on the top.
6. Once the fermenting apple cider mix has reached your desired strength you can begin bottling it remembering to use sterilized bottles/jars (coffee jars are ideal)

Tips

Bottling: I usually bottle ¼ of the apple cider a day for four days. In this way we can have a range of apple cider vinegars of varying strength from which to select.

Straining: I also strain some before bottling to be used as table vinegar (especially with fish, chips etc.). The reason for doing this is that it does make the final bottled apple cider vinegar more appealing to a considerably larger range of the population (especially the kids).