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Although Filipino and other Southeast Asian cuisines are known to incorporate coconut vinegar into foods as a salad dressing, marinades, or sauces, most people in America drink coconut vinegar mixed with water, lemon, or another juice drink in order to reap the digestive health benefits of coconut vinegar.
Shake well before pouring! For coconut vinegar, refrigeration is not required.
***Safety Warning: Since coconut vinegar is acidic, regularly drinking coconut water can damage your teeth and mouth. People with acid reflux or heartburn should be extra careful when trying their first glass of coconut vinegar diluted in water.***
Digestive Health. Probiotics and enzymes promote a healthy balance of bacteria in your gut.
Heart Health. Potassium in coconut vinegar supports a balanced blood pressure. The acetic acid derived from coconut vinegar’s fermentation can lower blood sugar and may be good for diabetes. Furthermore, antioxidants found inside coconut vinegar have been linked with lower cholesterol.
Weight Loss. In addition to the gut and blood benefits mentioned, coconut vinegar is known to suppress hunger and reduce cravings when on a diet, much like “similar but different” apple cider vinegar.
To drink coconut vinegar, you should mix a tablespoon of coconut vinegar into water or another beverage to taste.
If you have experience with apple cider vinegar, the same health mixology principles apply to health spritzers mixed with coconut vinegar.
The fermentation of coconut juice and sap has a mildly tangy, acidic flavor, not much like coconut at all.
For tastes’ sake avoid spiced coconut vinegar in beverages. Spiced vinegar is most common in spicy Filipino food. Instead, be sure to purchase coconut vinegar intended for drinking.
To purchase coconut vinegar for health purposes online, Dynamic Health’s organic coconut vinegar with mother is the most popular kind of coconut vinegar drink for health purposes.
Other imported food and beverage brands have carried coconut vinegar all along, and so shelf their coconut vinegar alongside other vinegars for cooking.
For health benefits, try Dynamic health or for taste, try imported coconut vinegar brands. These are the best bottles of drinkable coconut vinegar on Amazon:
For health purposes, you’re only looking for one ingredient, and that is coconut vinegar. The only ingredient is therefor coconut juice which has been fermented, and no other ingredients.
With an understanding of how coconut vinegar is fermented from coconuts, the ingredients of 100% coconut sap or 100% coconut water are also acceptable ingredients for a healthy bottled coconut vinegar.
Coconut vinegar is made by extracting the coconut water and/or sap from a live coconut tree. The coconut water and/or sap undergoes a process of pasteurization and filtration until perfectly fermented into pure coconut vinegar.
When the sugar inside coconut juice ferments and becomes acidic, that’s what gives coconut vinegar its unusual taste.
Source: DTI Philippines “How Coconut Vinegar is Made by Filtering and Pasteurizing Coconut Water into Vinegar”
The “mother” is the cloudy stuff that collects at the bottom of a bottle of coconut vinegar. “Mother” naturally forms during the fermentation. Not quite like orange juice pulp, a coconut vinegar’s “mother” contains proteins, enzymes, fibers, and “the good kind of bacteria” that make coconut vinegar into a probiotic for healthy digestion.
