Summer's sweltering heat can make people lose their appetites, and eating cool, acidic dishes can whet the appetite. Vinegar seasoning is one of the easiest ways to do this, such as using vinegar and olive oil to make a low-calorie oil-and-vinegar salad dressing compared to Thousand Island dressing, using vinegar and minced garlic and chili peppers to cool seafood, or using vinegar to pickle cucumber, lotus root and bitter melon as appetizers before a summer meal.

Dietitians recommend that patients with chronic diseases who have poor appetite and the elderly whose palate has deteriorated eat some vinegar in moderation to regulate appetite and improve eating.

●Vinegar can stimulate gastric acid secretion and help digestion

Eating vinegar in moderation can be a little helpful for some people who originally have less gastric acid secretion, but people with normal digestive tract function don't need to drink vinegar intentionally to improve digestion. Moreover, people with normal stomach acid secretion and then drink vinegar, may not increase the amount of stomach acid secretion.

●Vinegar can prevent high blood pressure

"Less salt and more vinegar" is the traditional Chinese way of healthy eating, but the frequency of eating out, eat a lot of processed foods, modern people, salt intake has long exceeded the recommended amount of 6 grams per day. If you can make good use of vinegar to increase the flavor of dishes to reduce the use of salt, can indeed reduce the risk of hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, stroke and other diseases.

Additionally, fruit vinegar contains the mineral potassium, which can help the body discharge excess sodium to prevent high blood pressure, of course, you eat fresh vegetables and fruits as well as the effect can be achieved.

Chinese medicine also has vinegar pickled peanuts as a food therapy to regulate blood pressure -- soak peanut kernels in vinegar for more than 7 days, then eat 10-15 a day for more than a week.

●Vinegar can help with calcium intake

When cooking rib soup, you can add a small amount of vinegar to help release calcium from the bones, making it easier for us to absorb it.

Looking at the above statements, it is not difficult to find that in fact, a lot of popular drinking vinegar health care, most of them are personal opinions, feelings, and scientific evidence is insufficient, in that case, we still need to eat vinegar every day, drink vinegar?

Comprehensive expert opinion, moderate "vinegar" on the health of no harm. However, the vinegar on the health of the help, in fact, as long as a balanced diet can be achieved, and not have to drink vinegar can not, so do not have to hold too high expectations of vinegar, and do not believe in the wrong prescription, that it can cure the disease. Every day drink vinegar or not, purely personal diet, health preferences, no vinegar habit of drinking a cup of vinegar drink occasionally, a change of flavor, as to add fun to life.

It is necessary to remind attention to the timing and amount of vinegar, eat inappropriate, but hurt the body.

●No vinegar on an empty stomach

No matter how strong your stomach and intestines, it is not suitable to drink vinegar on an empty stomach, so as not to stimulate the secretion of too much gastric acid, which can harm the stomach lining. Drinking vinegar between meals, or an hour after a meal, is less likely to stimulate the stomach and intestines, and helps digestion along the way.

●1-2 cups of diluted vinegar per day

It's okay to eat a small amount of vinegar, but anyone who drinks a large amount of vinegar as if they've turned over a jar of vinegar can irritate the stomach and intestines too much. In addition, commercially available fruit vinegar or other vinegar drinks often add a lot of sugar, if you drink vinegar instead of water, tea and other beverages, additional increase in calories, long-term drinking, obesity chances are greatly increased, more unfavorable to weight control.