If you find it hard to keep up with all the diets out there purporting to foster weight loss, you’re not alone. For many, the apple cider vinegar diet will be a new one to add to the list.

This particular diet reached peak interest in 2017, when it was one of the most-searched diets on Google, according to Harvard Health. But the diet's core ideas stretch back much further than that. Humans have believed that apple cider vinegar possesses healthful properties for hundreds of years – and in fact it does.