Apple Cider Vinegar

[joerobscatfarm]

I help manage the local food co-op and apple cider vinegar is one of our best sellers! The Brand we sell is Braggs. You can locate your local natural food store (people food) at localharvest.org. You can also check Braggs website for the many uses for apple cider vinegar - as with all natural remedies, some folks swear by its healing powers, others think its bunk - you can decide for yourselves!

 

[ChookHappy]

Does Braggs still have the mother in it? Is it something we could pick up from a Whole Foods perhaps? When we got started I bought a small bottle of this stuff from a chicken lady out here that overprices everything so I would prefer to avoid buying anything from her.

 

[THough1956]

How much vinegar to a gallon of water for the drinkers? Also can you use it in metal waters or will that cause rust and a chemical reaction?

Also, anyone use clorox in drinking water as a disease preventative? Seems I have heard old timers doing it,

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[CheerfulHeart2]

1 Tablespoon per gallon of drinking water...I have also seen 1 teaspoon per quart.
Don't use it in metal containers, it will leach the metal into the water.
Somewhere I saw a thread talking about chlorox in the water. Seems odd to me, but someone was trying it I think. I would be very, very careful though.

 

[feathersnuggles]

About Chlorox...I'd steer away from adding chlorox to drinking water, btw. It can be very harmful. It's extremely alkaline, and burns your esophagus and mouth tissues, like the dickens, when you drink water with even a small amt. clorox in it. (I did that accidentally, once) Ouch, really.

There are chlorine tablets, sold in outdoor supply stores, that you can use to treat questionable water (when you're camping near a stream, for example) if you don't know how clean is your water source. That is NOT the same as the Clorox you get at the grocery store. The chlorine tablets have an exact doseage for the water you're treating, it's on the package, and you usually have to wait for the gasses to evaporate out of the water before you drink it.

 

[joerobscatfarm]

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The Mother - Yes (FYI - for others - basically, the "mother" is the cloudy substance at the bottom of the jar; the residue of the apple, containing more nutrients and enzymes. Other brands are more filtered and clearer).

Whole Foods - most likely - We don't have one in our area - I have to drive to Philadelphia suburbs for the nearest

 

[Sissy]

Oh please dont use clorax.

Except to bleach your white sheets .

 

[ChookHappy]

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The Mother - Yes (FYI - for others - basically, the "mother" is the cloudy substance at the bottom of the jar; the residue of the apple, containing more nutrients and enzymes. Other brands are more filtered and clearer).

Whole Foods - most likely - We don't have one in our area - I have to drive to Philadelphia suburbs for the nearest

Ok excelent, thank you. I've heard many brands get the fiflter treatment. It about time to get some more.

My DW is from outside of Philly incidentally. Lancaster/Chester County area.

 

[greenbeandreams]

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Try your local health foods stores. That's where I got my Braggs.

 

[gsim]

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For keeping algae out of water containers, any ACV will work. For human consumption for controlling heartburn and reflux, any ACV will also work. For the best ACV, buy Bragg's. It is cold processed and has all of the enzymes and amino acids intact. It has the 'Mother' present which makes it look murky. You can find it at places like Fresh Market, any heal food store, and some grocery stores in the organic sections.