• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Vida Recipes

The easiest to make family friendly recipes you'll find anywhere!

  • Recipes
    • Low Carb Recipes
    • Holiday Recipes
    • Household Tips
    • Family Dishes
    • Seasonings
    • Desserts
    • Drinks
  • CBD Products
  • Contact Us

Posted on 01.20.17

Pickle Juice Has So Many Amazing Benefits! You may need #5 some day!

Very useful information about pickle juice that you never knew! There are so many benefits, like #16 I didn’t realize! Check out the list!

Pickle Juice Benefits

This is crazy! There are so many benefits to drinking pickle juice! It really works!

Post-Workout Drink:

Forget coconut water. Athletes swear by pickle juice’s scientifically proven benefits to exercise recovery. In one 2010 study, pickle juice halted post-workout muscle cramps in 85 seconds. That, plus its electrolyte-restoring powers has even yielded Pickle Juice Sport – a dill-flavored sports drink. But really, most athletes stick to good old Vlasic!

PMS Remedy:

For those same reasons, pickle juice is widely used as a cure for menstrual cramps. It may also prevent you from eating four bags of potato chips in one day. Not that we ever did that. That was a friend.

Potato Pick-Me-Up:
Add a heavy splash of pickle juice to a pot of simple boiled potatoes for a fantastic side dish. The flavors absorb so perfectly you won’t want to add salt, butter, sour cream, or anything to these taters once you’re done. Making potato salad? Skip the mayo, and toss with veggies and pickle juice for a much healthier (and more flavorful) version.

Pickleback Shot:
Odds are you’ve seen this cocktail on a bar menu sometime in the last couple years (lore has it they were first sold out of a London food truck in 2011). Perhaps you scoffed or called it a fad, but the truth is bartenders claim this to be the perfect complement to whiskey, instantly soothing the taste buds and aftershock of a rough liquor. Order one, and you will order five. For bonus points, follow that up with a Pickletini.

Hangover Cure:
If you can stomach it on a hangover tummy, pickle juice is a known folk remedy that actually works. It replenishes your depleted sodium levels and helps to assist in rehydration. In many countries, people even take a shot of pickle juice before going out to help prevent dehydration in the first place.

Vinegar Replacement:
Pickle juice works in place of vinegar in salad dressing, soups, or virtually any recipe. It is essentially vinegar on steroids.

Heartburn Cure:
Along with its flavor-boosting benefits, pickle juice seems to have the same health effects as straight-up vinegar. Particularly effective as a heartburn soother, pickle juice may also help to avoid blood-sugar spikes if taken with a meal.

Bloody Mary Booster:
On the not-as-healthy-but-just-as-important side of the spectrum, pickle juice is absolutely dynamite in a Bloody Mary. When its hangover-killing benefits combine with a little hair of the dog, nothing could make your Sunday morning any greater. Except cronuts.

Cleaning Agent:
Food industry insiders have been using pickle juice to clear blackened copper pans for years. It also works well as a grill cleaner, making those charred, crusted-on bits much easier to scrape off.

Pickle Popsicles:
True, you can buy these on pickleaddicts.com (actual, real thing), but you can also just pour some of this glorious nectar into pop molds, paper cups, or ice-cube trays and make your own savory summer snack.

Re-Pickler:
Or maybe you just want some more pickles? Empty your vegetable drawer and throw some onions, carrots, peppers, whatever, into the jar of leftover pickle juice. Let them sit for a few days and BOOM: new pickles!

Meat Tenderizer & Marinade:
Pickle juice has amazing meat-tenderizing abilities and, as a marinade, will add a ton of flavor to your meats, without the extra cals in heavy sauces or marinades. It works exceptionally well on chicken – some claim a skinless breast soaked overnight in pickle juice will taste like fried chicken when cooked, and we say that is voodoo but we’re okay with it. Try it on cuts of pork and beef, too.

Fish Poacher:
There is very little in this world that sounds more healthy-boring than poached fish. But, add your pickle juice to the poaching water and you will never look back.

Weed Killer:
The high vinegar and salt content of pickle juice has made it a longtime favorite with gardeners. Dumping it on dandelions, thistle, and virtually all common weeds that crop up around your home. Bonus, it’s pet-friendly and you probably already have it in your fridge!

Recipe Add-On:
We lost track of all the things you can add pickle juice to, but some favorites include: BBQ sauce, hummus, chicken salad, mac ‘n’ cheese, gazpacho, deviled eggs, vinaigrette, borscht, beet salad, salsa, bean dip, sauerbraten, and meatloaf.

Hiccup Stopper:
We’ve found little scientific evidence backing up this claim (and, frankly, we’re glad the scientists are working on other things), but many, many people claim that the number-one cure for hiccups is a small glass of pickle juice. Given how well this stuff works on everything else in the world, we believe it!

 

I hope you have fun trying all these out to see how they work for you!

 

Check out my amazing –> RECIPES

Bookmark and Share

Related

Categories: Household Tips

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Angie says

    August 10, 2018 at 9:21 am

    Pickle juice helps lower my blood sugar numbers I’m a diabetic

  2. Sue says

    August 3, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    Yes, it surely does do the job with no side effects.

  3. Diana Beasley says

    September 24, 2017 at 10:16 am

    Helps with leg cramps also!

  4. Laura Wilson says

    September 19, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    When I have a cough I can’t get rid of I take a small swig of pickle juice. It works so good.

  5. LindaPacker says

    July 5, 2017 at 3:43 pm

    Also good for Kidney stones! It helps by breaking up the bigger stones so you can pass them! Amazing!

  6. Marva Hartman Heggemeyer says

    May 15, 2017 at 11:58 am

    I use pickle juice in my tuna fish salad. Love the flavor!!!!

    • Vida Recipes says

      May 15, 2017 at 1:15 pm

      Sounds good!

  7. Wendy Monkman says

    May 5, 2017 at 12:30 am

    Pickle juice is the best hangover cure I have ever seen. My beautiful cousin was so hungover on the day of her wedding she wanted to cry. I made her drink a shot of pickle juice and she was able to enjoy her day with a clear head and fine stomach.

  8. Pattie jordan says

    April 17, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    Sounds great…will have to try these

  9. Mary E Herman Getz says

    March 16, 2017 at 4:32 pm

    It’s the vinegar that helps but the flavor is much better than regular vinegar.

  10. dedra lond f says

    March 12, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    Going to try for lots of Ideals

  11. Deborah says

    March 12, 2017 at 1:17 pm

    I have drank pickle juice for my hiccups and it works for me every single time. I had my son and granddaughter drink it for their hiccups and it worked for them to. So my scientific research is that pickle juice does work for hiccups.😀

    • Vida Recipes says

      March 12, 2017 at 2:08 pm

      Lol 🙂

  12. Melinda says

    March 11, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    Thanks

  13. DeDe says

    March 11, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    My son uses to rehydrate in the hot months in Florida..

  14. Janet says

    March 11, 2017 at 2:25 pm

    Hi I use the juice for my picked eggs even with the garlic and dill right in with it, just throw the eggs right in the jar after you eat the last pickle. Just hard boil the eggs!

  15. Rea says

    March 11, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    well ill be damed !!!!

  16. michael says

    January 30, 2017 at 8:00 am

    Vinegar is a great way to reduce flem. Pickle juice is a flavorful way to take the vinegar.

  17. marie says

    January 20, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    I also use it for leg cramps and yes it works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Larry says

      January 30, 2017 at 9:56 am

      Yes it does!!

      • Vida Recipes says

        January 31, 2017 at 7:54 am

        awesome!

sidebar

Blog Sidebar

Looking for Something?

Copyright © 2017 Vida Recipes. All rights reserved

Contact me - winwithmiller@outlook.com