Honeygar, also Honegar, is a mix of honey and apple cider vinegar, similar to switchel.
Honey and vinegar mixtures such as oxymel have been used for purported health benefits since ancient times.
The name "Honegar" was used by D. C. Jarvis in his book Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health (1958).
[2] In 1960, copies of Jarvis' book Folk Medicine were seized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in connection with sales of honegar.
[3][4] Physician Louis Lasagna noted that:[5] In Albany, New York, FDA agents seized $60,000 worth of "Honegar," a mixture of honey and apple cider vinegar, because its labeling failed to bear adequate directions for treating nearly fifty diseases and conditions for which "Honegar" was intended to be used.