Vinegar
Most recent answer: 10/22/2007
Q:
Since vinegar is made up of 97% water and is 3 percent acetic, then are there any other minerals or vitaimns in it?
- Emily
AZ, USA
- Emily
AZ, USA
A:
Well, if vinegar is made up only of that, Id imagine that you dont
get any other vitamins or minerals. Pure, reagent-grade (stuff you get
from chemistry lab stockrooms) probably is that pure. Quite possibly
also stuff you can get from the grocery store too. I remember hearing
that commercial sugar at the grocery store was purer at one point than
sugar available at much higher prices from chemical supply firms for
university research.
Acetic acid has many uses -- one of which is to use to stop the developing chemicals used to process black-and-white film and black-and-white prints (I am less familiar with color film processing, but possibly the same stuff gets used there). Another is as a household cleaning fluid.
But not all vinegar is intended for those uses. People like to pour it on their salads. So you might find at the grocery store "red wine vinegar" (itll be reddish), "apple cider vinegar", and possibly many other varieties. These other kinds of vinegar will have other nutrients, but Ill bet theyre in nutritionally insignificant amounts. You wouldnt want to use them as photographic chemicals or clean your tables with them, however.
Tom
One thing you can easily taste in many food vinegars is some sugar.
Mike W.
Acetic acid has many uses -- one of which is to use to stop the developing chemicals used to process black-and-white film and black-and-white prints (I am less familiar with color film processing, but possibly the same stuff gets used there). Another is as a household cleaning fluid.
But not all vinegar is intended for those uses. People like to pour it on their salads. So you might find at the grocery store "red wine vinegar" (itll be reddish), "apple cider vinegar", and possibly many other varieties. These other kinds of vinegar will have other nutrients, but Ill bet theyre in nutritionally insignificant amounts. You wouldnt want to use them as photographic chemicals or clean your tables with them, however.
Tom
One thing you can easily taste in many food vinegars is some sugar.
Mike W.
(published on 10/22/2007)