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Most of the health benefits of apple cider vinegar are anecdotal and have not been scientifically confirmed. We make no claims about any of the health benefits listed below but offer them up as a starting point for further research on your part.

1. When diluted with water 50/50 it is often used as a toner for the face. Caution should be used when applying as cider vinegar is very dangerous to the eyes.

2. A bath of apple cider vinegar is said to reduce the effects of sunburn. The vinegar soaked on a cloth and applied to sunburn may also be used.

3. Many women have tried a douche of apple cider vinegar as a remedy for yeast infections. However, many others claim that vinegar causes or worsens yeast infections. Some say it depends on the brand used.

4. There are many claims that apple cider vinegar is a powerful weight loss aid. Many people use it in salad dressings or drink a tablespoon diluted in a glass of water once or twice per day.

5. It is said to treat dandruff by destroying the fungus Malassezia furfur and restoring the PH balance of the scalp. Some people recommend applying a 50/50 mixture of water and vinegar, applying it to the scalp, and leaving it to dry. Others suggest applying a couple of tablespoons of straight vinegar to the scalp and leaving it on for an hour or two before rinsing.

6. It has long been promoted as a remedy for arthritis. The National Arthritis Foundation says apple cider vinegar has not been proven effective against arthritis but is harmless to try.
7. A reported treatment for warts is to soak the affected area for 20 minutes per day in a 50/50 mixture of vinegar and water.

8. It is said to be a natural lowerer of bad cholesterol.

9. A teaspoon of cider vinegar in a glass of water per day is said to lower blood pressure.

10. Mother of vinegar, the layer of film that forms on top of the cider, is believed to have antibacterial and antifungal properties.

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.” — Bernard M. Baruch

“Why not upset the apple cart? If you don’t the apples will rot anyway.” — Frank A. Clark

“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.” — Song of Solomon 2:5

“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” — Robert H. Schuller

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” — Chuck Palahniuk

“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!” — Dorothy Parker

“When the apple is ripe it will fall.” — Irish proverb

“Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman’s punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.” — Helen Rowland

“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” — Jane Austen

“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.” — William Somerset Maugham

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” — Che Guevara

“I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.” — Will Rogers

“Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.” — Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples

“From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage’s preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.” — Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples
“Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.” — Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man.” — Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples

“The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree’s, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.” — Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples

“What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!” — Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples

“Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.” Robert Greene (1590), Arcadia

“Pessimism is as American as apple pie – frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.” — George Will

“My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman’s ever been taken entirely unawares…. When a woman’s kissed it’s because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.” — Philip Dunne

“Why do we need so many kinds of apples? Because there are so many folks. A person has a right to gratify his legitimate taste. If he wants twenty or forty kinds of apples for his personal use…he should be accorded the privilege. There is merit in variety itself. It provides more contact with life, and leads away from uniformity and monotony.” — Liberty Hyde Baily

Bone Protection
French researchers found that a flavanoid called phloridzin that is found only in apples may protect post-menopausal women from osteoporosis and may also increase bone density. Boron, another ingredient in apples, also strengthens bones.

Asthma Help
One recent study shows that children with asthma who drank apple juice on a daily basis suffered from less wheezing than children who drank apple juice only once per month. Another study showed that children born to women who eat a lot of apples during pregnancy have lower rates of asthma than children whose mothers ate few apples.

Alzheimer’s Prevention
A study on mice at Cornell University found that the quercetin in apples may protect brain cells from the kind of free radical damage that may lead to Alzheimer’s disease.

Lower Cholesterol
The pectin in apples lowers LDL (“bad”) cholesterol. People who eat two apples per day may lower their cholesterol by as much as 16 percent.

Lung Cancer Prevention
According to a study of 10,000 people, those who ate the most apples had a 50 percent lower risk of developing lung cancer. Researchers believe this is due to the high levels of the flavonoids quercetin and naringin in apples.

Breast Cancer Prevention
A Cornell University study found that rats who ate one apple per day reduced their risk of breast cancer by 17 percent. Rats fed three apples per day reduced their risk by 39 percent and those fed six apples per day reduced their risk by 44 percent.

Colon Cancer Prevention
One study found that rats fed an extract from apple skins had a 43 percent lower risk of colon cancer. Other research shows that the pectin in apples reduces the risk of colon cancer and helps maintain a healthy digestive tract.
Liver Cancer Prevention
Research found that rats fed an extract from apple skins had a 57 percent lower risk of liver cancer.

Diabetes Management
The pectin in apples supplies galacturonic acid to the body which lowers the body’s need for insulin and may help in the management of diabetes.

Weight Loss
A Brazilian study found that women who ate three apples or pears per day lost more weight while dieting than women who did not eat fruit while dieting.

Apples float because 25% of their volume is air.

The largest apple ever picked weighed three pounds, two ounces.

One medium apple contains about 80 calories.

The word apple comes from the Old English aeppel.

The Celtic word for apple is abhall.

Quercetin is found only in the apple skin. The skin also contains more antioxidants and fiber than the flesh.

China produces more apples than any other country.

Washington, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and California are the top 5 apple-producing states in the U.S. In all, 36 states produce apples commercially.

The apple is the official state fruit of Washington, New York, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.

There are more than 7500 varieties of apples grown in the world. About 2500 varieties are grown in the United States.

Red Delicious is the most popular and most-produced apple in the United States. Golden Delicious is the second most popular.

The only apple native to North America is the crabapple.

Half the United States apple crop is turned into apple products like applesauce and apple juice.

Apple trees don’t bear their first fruit until they are four or five years old.

Archaeologists have evidence of people eating apples as far back as 6500 B.C.

The more apples a person eats, the lower his or her risk of developing lung cancer.

Johnny Appleseed was the nickname for John Chapman, a kind and generous American pioneer born in 1774 who planted apple seeds in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no mention of an apple as the forbidden fruit in the Bible. It is referred to as “fruit from the Tree of Knowledge” with no specification as to which kind of fruit. It was Hugo Van Der Goes who first implicated the apple as the forbidden fruit in his 1470 A.D. painting, The Fall of Man. After that, it became popular to depict the apple as the forbidden fruit.

The Adam’s apple is so-called because of a popular idea that it was created when the forbidden fruit got stuck in Adam’s throat when he swallowed it.