What's the difference between apple cider vinegar and white vinegar?!

What's the difference between apple cider vinegar and white vinegar?

I've heard apple cider vinegar is good for lowering cholesterol, but can I take white vinegar instead?

4 months ago
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Apple cider vinegar is best for personal use inside the body and out, including health issues.
Apple cider vinegar has minerals and other properties not found in white or grain vinegar.
A notable exclusion to this rule is in canning. Vegetables are pickled in white vinegar to avoid the discoloration that apple cider vinegar causes. However, apple cider vinegar can be used in dark colored produce such beets with no problems.
For cleaning, laundry, etc., white vinegar is preferred because, being "white," it won't discolor fabrics or other materials. White vinegar is sometimes cheaper, too, and since cleaning usually takes more volume than personal uses, white vinegar is a more frugal approach to cleaning.

Both vinegars have mild bleaching, degreasing, antibacterial and acidic properties so they can be interchanged (with care) in a pinch, except for health related purposes.