Hi Kirsteen and Sol, I'm not dogmatic about this, you can check it out for yourselves, but as with wine, many fermentation processes are self-limiting; i.e., the alcohol or acetic acid or whatever the bugs produce in a limited environment like a wine or vinegar vat or a saurkraut crock eventually poisons them and so limits the fermentation process. This is not to say NONE of them survive, or perhaps more significantly their spores.
OTOH, there are a number of aerobic and even partially anaerobic organisms lumped into the "yeast" category, with widely varying products of fermentation or other exudates depending on their environment. The commonest example is baker's/brewer's yeast which can produce alcohol and/or carbon dioxide depending on the concentrations of not only air, CO2, and alcohol but also temperature. The kingdom of fungi, from molds and yeasts to mushrooms and other strange beasts like walking slime molds is phylogenetically more like us than any bacterium, archaeo- or complex. This makes it much more difficult to defend ourselves against their involvement with us and much more risky to try to poison them out of our systems; we're much more likely to poison ourselves as well. An interesting book you might find enjoyable as well as informative about fungi: "Magical Mushrooms, Mischevious Molds" by George W. Hudler Take care, Malcolm On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:49 -0600, sol wrote: > Kirsteen Wright wrote: > > Hi, can anyone give me some advice please. I've recently started taking > > the raw cider vinegar in water. However, I've recently had a food > > intolerance test done and came up strongly positive for yeast (among > > other things). Obviously I have to avoid yeast and I believe this > > includes vinegar. Does this also include the raw cider vinegar? > > My own opinion is it would mean raw cider vinegar. It is not pasteurized > so the yeasts in it are alive. > sol > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
