Is there alcohol in apple cider vinegar

[lesah]

I have searched here and a number of places online but I can't find an answer.
Is there alcohol in Bragg's apple cider vinegar?

I always get a strange slightly calm feeling after drinking two or three tablespoons in a big glass of water.
But I can't imagine how there could be any alcohol in it without it all over the label.

Any help would be most appreciated. It can help a lot with anxiety (in addition tonallnthe medical treatments, not instead of). But ifnits alcohol I don't want that.
Thanks.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

If it's not on the label, it's not in the beverage. You can be sure of that. The company would not be in business long if it was misleading to that degree.

However, my brother in law used to buy organic farm made apple cider in a jug and if often would ferment in the jug and give it a nice natural buzz.

 

[lesah]

Thanks Greg.
So does vinegar in general contain any alcohol? I definitely feel weird and a bit tingly when drinking it

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

No, vinegar is a liquid consisting mainly of acetic acid and water.
http://www.versatilevinegar.org/faqs.html
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-suppl...=816&activeingredientname=apple cider vinegar

 

[lesah]

Awesome. Thank you. Much appreciated.

 

[Borek]

No doubt there are alcohols in the apple vinegar

1. When you ask about alcohol, you really mean ethanol. I am more than sure there are measurable quantities of ethanol present, but they are way too low to matter.

2. Chemically, "alcohol" doesn't mean just ethanol, plenty of other compounds containing the -OH group (which is what alcohols are). They are present in practically all natural products.

 

[Nugatory]

They are present in practically all natural products.

Fresh-baked bread, for example... Alcohols are a big part of that delicious "someone's been baking" smell.
We humans evolved the ability to metabolize alcohol because it is ubiquitous in our diet.

 

[Quantum Defect]

Fresh-baked bread, for example... Alcohols are a big part of that delicious "someone's been baking" smell.
We humans evolved the ability to metabolize alcohol because it is ubiquitous in our diet.

There was a funny commentary in Nature a while back (20 years?) which noted that the amount of ethanol produced due to fermentation by the critters in the human gut was significant. The cheeky columnist was arguing that we should somehow alter the balance in our gut to lower our tolerance to ethanol, so that we could get tipsy on a smaller amount of additional ethanol.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

There was a funny commentary in Nature a while back (20 years?) which noted that the amount of ethanol produced due to fermentation by the critters in the human gut was significant. The cheeky columnist was arguing that we should somehow alter the balance in our gut to lower our tolerance to ethanol, so that we could get tipsy on a smaller amount of additional ethanol.

There are documented cases in the medical literature of yeasts in the human stomach fermenting sugars into alcohol, getting people drunk off of things like bagles and bread:

The patient had an infection with http://www.epa.gov/biotech_rule/pubs/fra/fra002.htm, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy reported the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.

(source)

 

[lesah]

No doubt there are alcohols in the apple vinegar

1. When you ask about alcohol, you really mean ethanol. I am more than sure there are measurable quantities of ethanol present, but they are way too low to matter.

2. Chemically, "alcohol" doesn't mean just ethanol, plenty of other compounds containing the -OH group (which is what alcohols are). They are present in practically all natural products.

How much ethanol are we talking? How much in say a half cup acv?

Can a person get any buzz from vinegar?
Thanks

 

[Borek]

How much ethanol are we talking? How much in say a half cup acv?

No idea about exact numbers, but we are talking about traces - way too low for any physiological effects (but high enough to be accurately measured by advanced analytical techniques).

 

[lesah]

Thanks for the help, everyone. Much appreciated!

 

[Almeisan]

There are trace amounts of ethanol and methanol in fresh fruits and unfertmented fruit juice.

 

[lesah]

Interesting! I never knew that.