Hi Veronique, thanks for commenting 🙂

the nutritional qualities in fresh herbs are the same or similar to dried herbs (depends how much has been lost during handling). BUT, dried plant material takes up so much less space than fresh plant material that you wouldn’t be able to fit enough of a fresh herb in a jar to get the equivalent volume and therefore the equivalent nourishment. Minerals take up space! (I’m not sure how/when we bought into the idea that you could just take a “multi-pill” and that was your minerals for the day…)

herbal infusions made with dried herbs are such an effective source of nutrition partly because its a way to consume the nutrients from a volume of plant material, in one drink, that you couldn’t consume any other way. (the other reason is that the boiling water breaks open the plant cell walls and makes the minerals available to us)

“Because minerals are rock-like, we need to break open cell walls to get at them. To extract minerals, we need heat, time, and generous quantities of plant material.” ~ Herbalist Susun Weed

I hope that clarifies it; feel free to respond if you have more questions 🙂

You are welcome! I wish I could taste your vinegars, they sound amazing! Best wishes 🙂