Apple cider vinegar is an exception: unlike almost every other vinegar, it has an alkaline ash and improves pH by making the body less acidic.
The old tried and true organic apple cider vinegar. Old hippie remedy for good health. I use it in cooking all the time as well as a spoonfull hear and there. Home made Kefir is another way to keep the bod on track.
No such thing. If the ACV contains this alkaline ash it would have to neutralize the acid already in the ACV, therefore in order for it to improve the acidity in your stomach it would have to be a alkaline solution and it wouldn’t be a vinegar at all. The real reason that it seems to work for some people is that it either dilutes the acid in your stomach or your stomach is producing to little natural acid( which actually can happen with acid reflux).
I realize that apple cider vinegar (and vinegar in general) is often touted as a potent home remedy but ...
As a recovering cell physiologist I have have a hard time believing (without empirical evidence) that an acidic solution (i.e. demonstrable low pH) ingested via the gut has the effect of raising pH in the body or bloodstream.
Now, there may be other mineral salts (or pectins) that have some effect, but when an acid solution enters the stomach, (and *ALL* vinegars are solutions of acetic acid) the body DOES NOT respond by lowering blood pH.
I am open to contrary evidence, however. ;-)
p.s. I don’t know what you mean when you say Apple Cider vinegar has an alkaline ash. In theory foods that ARE alkaline to begin with could decompose or be metabolised to produce alkaline salts or minerals that make it across the stomach or intestinal lining. Just lookin’ for specificity.
I am just thinking that chemically the vinegar from apple cider is identical to any other vinegar, except for perhaps % acetic acid. so, use ANY vinegar and eat an apple, even a dried apple.