The Myth of the Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) "Mother"

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

There is a big myth about apple cider vinegar, and it has to do with the "mother." Let’s talk about it.

The mother in apple cider vinegar is a combination of two things: friendly bacteria and enzymes. You can’t actually see bacteria or enzymes. This means you can’t see the true mother in apple cider vinegar.

What you see at the bottom of a bottle of apple cider vinegar is the leftovers of the fermentation process. It’s just unfiltered particles from the apples or maybe fiber—there’s not necessarily enzymes or probiotics in it.

When apple cider vinegar is pasteurized, the heat kills bacteria and enzymes. High pressure can also kill bacteria and enzymes.

Fairchild’s is the only brand of apple cider vinegar that produces and sells their product. They produce a high-quality organic raw apple cider vinegar product. It’s also undiluted and much stronger than Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar, which is diluted with water.

I don’t get anything from promoting their product, but when I find a really good product like this one, I like to share it with others.

Recommended Apple Cider Vinegar: https://www.fairchildsvinegar.com/

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0:00.0	This topic is a little bit controversial. It might potentially upset certain people because they had
0:06.0	this certain thought that the mother inside the apple cider vinegar really was the same thing as the sediment at the bottom of the container.
0:15.0	So let's discuss this topic.
0:18.0	When you start out with apples and then you go to alcohol,
0:22.0	you need a certain type of yeast.
0:23.9	This is the first step of fermentation.
0:26.2	There's also a second step of fermentation
0:28.6	where you go from alcohol to vinegar.
0:31.3	When we're talking about apple set of vinegar, we're talking about acid
0:35.0	as the type of vinegar and that uses a very specific type of bacteria.
0:40.0	And when we talk about this thing called the mother, okay,
0:44.4	we're really talking about a combination of two things,
0:48.2	friendly bacteria, and number two, very specific enzymes like cellulice, hemice cellulose, and pectinase, and there's others as well.
1:00.6	The true mother is really bacteria and enzymes. Now I have a
1:05.8	question for you. Can you see an enzyme? When's the last time you actually saw an
1:10.8	enzyme? They're invisible. What about a bacteria? Can you actually see
1:16.0	bacteria? Chances are no. So the true mother, bacteria and enzymes, cannot be seen.
1:22.7	When you see the sediment at the bottom of the container,
1:26.3	what you're looking at is kind of something left over
1:28.8	from this fermentation process.
1:31.5	And so the only thing you can really tell about this sediment is it's
1:36.3	completely unfiltered. It does not mean that there's enzymes or probiotics in that sediment.
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