Apple cider vinegar: Katy Perry and Victoria Beckham swear by it, but health experts are not convinced

Drinking apple cider vinegar regularly keeps blood sugar levels stable, and helps with weight loss and reducing sugar cravings, recent studies have found

Despite these results, doctors still can’t come to a definitive conclusion about how effective it really is

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Recent studies have found that drinking apple cider vinegar keeps blood sugar levels stable, and helps with weight loss and reducing sugar cravings, but some experts are not convinced. Photo: Alamy

Published: 5:00am, 23 Sep 2019Updated: 8:39pm, 23 Sep 2019

The drink that celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow start the day with isn’t coffee; it’s lemon water, a simple concoction of warm water and fresh lemon juice.

Besides flooding the body with immunity-boosting vitamin C, drinking warm lemon water on an empty stomach is said to aid digestion, improve the skin, maintain the body’s pH level and reduce inflammation.

For singer Katy Perry and fashion designer Victoria Beckham, it’s apple cider vinegar, or ACV, that they reach for first thing in the morning. In a 2017 Instagram post, Beckham revealed that she consumes two tablespoons of undiluted ACV every morning on an empty stomach. ACV is said to be a little more beneficial than lemon water in keeping blood sugar levels stable, helping with weight loss and reducing sugar cravings.

But how valid are these claims? According to one short-term Japanese study, published in 2009 in the journal Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, drinking ACV was shown to help with weight loss.

Celebrities like Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow are big fans of drinking lemon water. Photo: Alamy

Overweight men and women consumed 15ml of the vinegar mixed with 250ml of water twice a day as part of their regular diet. After 12 weeks, the participants each lost about one kilogram, although once they stopped drinking the diluted ACV, their weight returned to usual levels within four weeks.