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The shocking benefits of vinegar in your diet?

Well, vinegar has been around a very long time.

In fact, research shows that vinegar is probably existed for at least 4,000 years BC.

Probably as long as wine has been being made, and we've been using it in a variety of ways ever

since then. But first of all, what exactly is vinegar? Well, the term vinegar comes from French,

meaning sour wine. And wine and vinegar are both made by fermenting or turning fruit juices

into alcohol. However, the key difference between wine and vinegar is that wine is fermented with

yeast, while vinegar is fermented with bacteria. And many of you may know that pastor became famous

in figuring out why wine would sometimes go bad and turn into vinegar.

And he discovered that, in fact, the wine that turned into vinegar had been contaminated by bacteria.

And he became the toast of the French court and the French kings. And his fame led to, of course,

pasteurization, which was killing off the harmful bacteria in wine. And that's how he actually

got famous, but that's an entirely another story. But vinegar, in a way, is bad wine.

Now, wine yeast remains the sugars in grape juice into alcohol, while bacteria can ferment the

alcohol into a sedic acid. And depending on the variety of what you're fermenting, you can get

multiple other forms of vinegar, such as malic acid is in apple cider vinegar, as well as a

sedic acid. And so on. Now, the sour taste of vinegar actually comes from these sedic acids.

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