I drank fire cider for a week — and I'm never drinking coffee again

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• Fire cider is a drinking tonic made from apple cider vinegar, and is touted as being able to curb your cravings, lower your blood sugar, ease your sinuses, aid in digestion, and prevent you from getting colds.
• After drinking it for a week, you might start to realize that you won't need to drink coffee anymore.
• The drink tastes equal parts spicy, sweet, and tart.

Apple cider vinegar has been touted as the remedy for everything from dull skin to dandruff, so it’s not surprising that fire cider, an apple cider vinegar drinking tonic, has been catching on too. Fire vinegar, as it’s also known, is not unlike a shrub (a fruity, vinegary syrup you mix with water or sparkling water), with apple cider vinegar as its base. Fire cider fanatics claim that it has numerous benefits from curbing cravings to preventing colds. Curious about this much-touted beverage, I drank fire cider on the regular for a week to see if it lived up to the hype.

What is fire cider?

Fire cider was developed by an herbalist in the 1970s. She started with apple cider vinegar, a fermented ingredient proven to have antibacterial and antioxidant properties, as the base, adding other ingredients such as horseradish (for decongestion), ginger (for warmth), garlic and onion (for antibacterial properties), cayenne (to boost metabolism and immunity), and honey to tie everything together and make the drink more palatable. Fire cider is said to restore and invigorate one’s system, and additionally, many claim it has benefits that include boosting energy, warding off colds and flus, easing sinus congestion, lowering blood sugar, curbing cravings, and aiding digestion.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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