The other night at the Hobby Group Party, a very nice woman said (in all sincerity) that she couldn't take her daily (one teaspoon of) apple cider vinegar while pregnant.
I was polite and did not ask her about her salad dressing and pickle consumption while pregnant. But truly, the mind boggles.
That is so bizarre because when I was pregnant I was absolutely taking the ACV (it helped with sugar stuff). It is probably part of why I lost a back molar with each pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's contraindicated with metformin, but my assumption if someone told me that was that pregnancy was causing them to take a medication where ACV was contraindicated or something. It probably doesn't matter either way though.
Oh-- the internet says you shouldn't take unpasteurized ACV while pregnant so maybe it's that. I mean, you probably shouldn't take unpasteurized anything while pregnant. (PCOS doesn't care about the pasteurization of vinegar, but people who take ACV for other reasons might.) Presumably pickles and salad dressing are pasteurized.
The good pickles are not pasteurized! Also all these people think a teaspoon a day "boosts immunity." The biggest dangers when pregnant are usually listeria and salmonella, which definitely don't grow in vinegar. But, you know, bless their hearts.
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