Food for Thought

With the fall season comes the most confusing, indecisive moment of your life: going to your local grocery store and standing in the aisle, just pondering, in front of you fall-themed-foods galore. It’s pretty tough to choose when there’s pumpkin spice everything, from sparkling pumpkin cider to limited-edition pumpkin spice cheerios.

And then, staring you in the face, the food/drink phenomenon that food bloggers say is a must, that dietitians say you can try, and that makes me question what I’m getting myself into. I presume by now you’re confused and have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s something that I’d never tried before, and something that might not exactly be the right way to spice up your life: ACV, better known as apple cider vinegar. I tried this particular type of vinegar for the first time ever this week.

Ok, so maybe it’s not a coincidence that I went to the grocery store, picked up some apple cider vinegar, and went on my merry way. Long story short, one of my classes assigned a fermentation project using a recipe of our choice, and I thought what better way to do it than a fall entrée of Deviled eggs? Besides, somewhere in the mélange of the latest food trends and seasonally-themed entrées and desserts that overtake social media this time every year, I found myself looking at recipes with ACV (there’s surprisingly a lot of them). As much as I bet the word ‘vinegar’ most definitely will not pique your interest, it’s amazing how many people actually consider it an ingredient in dishes. Plus, I had seen the “insanely-amazing” results for fitness on the internet and I was curious. Fitness blogs often recommend the following recipe: 

1. Take a tablespoon of the vinegar.

2. Mix with some water to dilute. 

3. Drink up! 

Fair warning: I might have missed the step about diluting it. Still, I gave it a shot, and I was actually surprised by how…absolutely disgusting it was. Don’t get me wrong. I love apples and any fruit, but apples and vinegar? In a highly-not-diluted concentration? That’s the perfect spooky season scare. Maybe some things are better left untested, especially if I have to ingest that potion ever again.

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