The fitness and nutrition market is flush with various magical solutions that supposedly help char fat from physiques and lean beach bodies out for summer. A lot is going on, from fat burners to appetite suppressants to antioxidant mixtures; it can be challenging to understand what supplements are effective tools for your goals versus which are just gimmicks with a price tag.
Apple cider vinegar is one of those ingredients that show up often in supplement ingredient lists. Is it more beneficial or gimmick? Let’s dive further into what apple cider vinegar is and other ingredients like L-Tyrosine, L-Carnitine, and caffeine.
Kaged Clean Burn
A single 6.8-gram scoop serving of Kaged Clean Burn includes 500 milligrams of apple cider vinegar powder, 1,500 milligrams of L-Carnitine, 375 milligrams of L-Tyrosine, and 10 calories.
What Is Apple Cider Vinegar?
Apple cider vinegar is apple juice with the addition of yeast that ferments its sugars into alcohol. That’s why the taste of apple cider vinegar is often much more sour than sweet. A bacteria known as acetobacter ferments that alcohol into acetic acid, often used as a food acidity regulator and an antimicrobial food preservative. (1)(2)(3)
Apple Cider Vinegar and Exercise
Exercise — both resistance training and cardio — facilitates weight loss by creating negative energy expenditure, a fancy way of saying “burns calories.” Increasing one’s endurance to train longer increases the potential to burn more calories. (4)
Subjects who drank two tablespoons of vinegar in a cup of water (3.6 grams of acetic acid) twice a day for eight weeks had basic erosive wear scores — a way to measure tooth enamel erosion — 18 percent higher than those who didn’t. That is potentially avoidable by consuming vinegar in powdered form and mixing a powdered form with liquid. (5)
L-Tyrosine
Tyrosine is a non-essential neutral amino acid that can act as a precursor to catecholamines. These compounds play several important roles in the body. According to the Journal of Psychiatric Research, L-Tyrosine seems to “effectively enhance cognitive performance, particularly in short-term stressful and/or cognitively demanding situations,” such as moderate-intensity exercise. (6)
Tyrosine is an amino acid. In a study of nine soccer players, the effects of tyrosine supplementation on cognitive and physical performance in a hot environment were examined. The researchers found that tyrosine supplementation may improve cognitive performance when exposed to exercise-heat stress. (7)
L-Carnitine
L-Carnitine is a chemical produced in the brain, liver, and kidneys that helps transport fatty acids to cells to convert them into energy. It has been shown to help reduce post-workout soreness and recovery for active users. (8)(9)
Caffeine
Of the ingredients in Kaged Clean Burn examined thus far, caffeine appears to have the most extensive scope of research related to its effects on metabolism, thermogenesis, and calorie burning. These are important factors for anyone using a fitness plan to get lean. The specific type of caffeine used in Kaged Clean Burn is PurCaf®, which derives its caffeine from organic green coffee beans.
Feel the Clean Burn
While apple cider vinegar is far from a miracle substance for fitness goals, in tandem with L-Carnitine, L-Tyrosine, and Caffeine in Kaged Clean Burn with Apple Cider Vinegar, it could make your cardio days your forte. Nothing can substitute for a clean diet and a consistent training regimen, but Kaged Clean Burn with Apple Cider Vinegar can make the assist.
Kaged Clean Burn
A single 6.8-gram scoop serving of Kaged Clean Burn includes 500 milligrams of apple cider vinegar powder, 1,500 milligrams of L-Carnitine, 375 milligrams of L-Tyrosine, and 10 calories.
References
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- Acetic acid. (2022). Retrieved 5 May 2022, from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Acetic-acid
- Debunking the health benefits of apple cider vinegar. (2018). Retrieved 5 May 2022, from https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/health-and-wellness-articles/debunking-the-health-benefits-of-apple-cider-vinegar
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Swift, D. L., McGee, J. E., Earnest, C. P., Carlisle, E., Nygard, M., & Johannsen, N. M. (2018). The Effects of Exercise and Physical Activity on Weight Loss and Maintenance. Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 61(2), 206–213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2018.07.014
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Anderson, S., Gonzalez, L. A., Jasbi, P., & Johnston, C. S. (2021). Evidence That Daily Vinegar Ingestion May Contribute to Erosive Tooth Wear in Adults. Journal of medicinal food, 24(8), 894–896. https://doi.org/10.1089/jmf.2020.0108
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Jongkees, B. J., Hommel, B., Kühn, S., & Colzato, L. S. (2015). Effect of tyrosine supplementation on clinical and healthy populations under stress or cognitive demands–A review. Journal of psychiatric research, 70, 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.08.014
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Tumilty, L., Davison, G., Beckmann, M., & Thatcher, R. (2011). Oral tyrosine supplementation improves exercise capacity in the heat. European journal of applied physiology, 111(12), 2941–2950. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-011-1921-4
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Pooyandjoo, M., Nouhi, M., Shab-Bidar, S., Djafarian, K., & Olyaeemanesh, A. (2016). The effect of (L-)carnitine on weight loss in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 17(10), 970–976. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12436
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L-CARNITINE: Overview, Uses, Side Effects, Precautions, Interactions, Dosing and Reviews. (2022). Retrieved 5 May 2022, from https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1026/l-carnitine
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