Will Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) Break Your Fast?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 23 May 2020
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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about apple cider vinegar and fasting. Apple cider vinegar does have carbohydrates. So, will apple cider vinegar break your fast?
One tablespoon of apple cider vinegar (ACV) has .01g of carbohydrates. So it’s not really going to break the fast more than a nanosecond.
Balsamic vinegar has 3g of carbs, and rice vinegar has 6g of carbs. So, comparatively, these two types of vinegar both have a lot more carbs than apple cider vinegar. But, if you’re just using a small amount as a salad dressing, I think it’s going to be just fine.
What is vinegar?
Vinegar is mainly acetic acid. Acetic acid comes from acetic acid bacteria that ferment carbs. It breaks down certain carbohydrates with enzymes and eventually turns them into vinegar. Fermentation is pretty much the breakdown of carbs, sugar, or alcohol by bacteria.
The really interesting thing about apple cider vinegar is that it has a tiny amount of carbohydrates, but it still has a lot of benefits.
A few apple cider benefits:
• It can help stabilize blood sugars
• It may lower insulin
• It can help improve insulin resistance
Anything that decreases insulin will help you lose weight. Because apple cider vinegar stabilizes your blood sugar, your hunger will go down, and your energy will go up.
You don’t have to worry about consuming apple cider vinegar while fasting. In fact, I actually encourage it. Apple cider vinegar may even help you fast for longer and have more energy.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So here's a question. Will apple cider vinegar actually break your |
| 0:47.3 | fast? Because it does have carbohydrate. Okay, one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar has |
| 0:53.9 | 0.01 grams of carbohydrates. So it's not |
| 0:58.5 | going to really break to fast more than a nanosecond. But if you're consuming basalmic vinegar, |
| 1:03.4 | three grams of carbs. Rice vinegar, six grams of carb. So these two comparatively have a lot more than upside vinegar, but if you're using |
| 1:13.6 | just a tiny bit on your salad dressing, I think it's going to be okay. But what is vinegar? |
| 1:18.4 | Vinegar is acetic acid. There's some other things in there, but it's mainly acetic acid. |
| 1:24.6 | Now, where does this come from? It comes from acetic acid bacteria. So this bacteria |
| 1:30.5 | ferments the carbs, the apple carbohydrates. So it's breaking down the carbohydrates with certain enzymes |
| 1:38.1 | and eventually turning it into vinegar. So fermentation is basically the breakdown of carbs, sugar, or alcohol by bacteria. |
| 1:46.9 | The Latin derivation of the word vinegar means sour wine. And the reason why they add |
| 1:52.9 | sulfites to the wine is to prevent this bacteria from turning the alcohol into vinegar because sulfites suppress this bacteria. |
| 2:04.2 | Now, when I was 11 years old, in the backyard, we had this crab apple tree. And so I took |
| 2:09.8 | this bushel basket of crab apples through the cornfield, up to this hill where this farmer lived. |
| 2:15.8 | And he actually had a press. And we turned all those |
| 2:18.4 | apples into apple juice. So we had them in jugs. So I took these jugs of apple juice, |
| 2:23.0 | took them back home, put them in the backyard. And the next couple days, I came back and I wanted to |
| 2:31.5 | drink some of this juice. And I noticed it tastes very, very strange. |
| 2:36.2 | And the more I drank, the more I felt really relaxed and I felt really good. |
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