Best apple cider vinegar brands in the UK taste tested

Add to your morning smoothie or mix into your favourite salad dressing and savour the 48 different apple varieties packed into Willy’s punchy apple cider vinegar.

The apples are grown in 300-year-old orchards to create a lovely organic, raw, unpasteurised and naturally fermented apple cider vinegar with real live ‘mother’, which is hand-crafted on the brand’s Herefordshire farm. Get your hands on this probiotic goodness fast.

This artisan bottle is made from handpicked, cold-pressed apples. Unfiltered and unpasteurised, it’s all-natural and comes packed with benefits. For an extra kick, it is also available with ginger, turmeric and chilli, or turmeric and cinnamon.

Delicious in dressings, as a drink or simply drizzled over certain foods, Braggs’ vinegar is full of zesty flavour and natural goodness. It’s made from the finest organic apples and contains ‘mother’, providing a wholesome vinegar with health benefits like improving cardiovascular health and aiding digestion.

OSU has spent 200 years expertly crafting and perfecting vinegars in Japan. This original vinegar has been blended with 100 per cent natural apple juice and the ‘mother’ to bring an enjoyable balance of sweetness and tanginess, with a smooth taste in the mouth. Free from artificial flavourings, preservatives and colourings, it is also presented in a pretty bottle to stand out in your kitchen.

Ostler’s family-run orchard and cider mill in Devon has been creating award-winning cider vinegar since 1989. Naturally made from freshly crushed apples complete with the ‘mother’, the vinegar provides powerful enzymes and gut-friendly bacteria in a rich but smooth flavour.

A well-known brand found in many family kitchens, Aspall’s apple cyder vinegar has matured over time to produce a lovely delicate flavour. Crisp and light, it can be used as a marinade, dressing or during the cooking process. It has one of the most appetising tastes on the list and of course, comes complete with gut-friendly benefits. It is unfiltered and contains the vinegar-fermenting bacteria ‘mother’.

Organically grown, cold-pressed Spanish apples make up Tree of Life’s cider vinegar. Full of fruity flavour and containing the ‘mother’, mix into a glass of water with honey, or stir into dressings and sauces to give your dishes a health kick.

For a tangy yet sweet fruity taste, try Biona’s cider vinegar – in marinades, drinks or just as it is. The naturally healthy ingredients with the ‘mother’ are totally pure and unfiltered so offer several health benefits too.

Raw Health believes in ‘vibrant living’ as you can tell from the colourful bottle alone. But the real goodness starts, once you taste the contents. It is an aromatic vinegar that is brimming with valuable enzymes and health benefits from the ‘mother’, along with a lovely fruity flavour from the pressed organic apples. It’s sustainably sourced too.

Using the juice of whole, naturally grown apples sourced from Kent orchards, this cider vinegar is 100 per cent natural as well as unpasteurised and unfiltered. Picked by hand and blended with the ‘mother’, drizzle over dishes, add to water or marinate away for delicious flavour. The glass bottle is great to reuse.