Dr Gottling, head of the German Garlic Research Institute, said recently that garlic contains more than 400 substances that are beneficial to health. If people want to live to 90 years old, garlic should be the basic ingredient of food.
Soaking garlic in vinegar lowers blood lipid and blood pressure.
Researchers point out that many human diseases are caused by high blood lipid levels. Many daily foods, such as eggs, sausages, cheese, bacon, etc. Eating it will double the fat in the blood. But if you eat garlic at the same time, the rising trend of fat will be curbed.
Garlic can not only help to reduce blood lipid, but also prevent and reduce the accumulation of arterial fat plaque, thus preventing heart disease.
Smoking and drinking can also make blood sticky. If you can eat some garlic at the same time, it will play a role in balancing and diluting blood. These potential effects of garlic have opened up a brand-new way for preventing and improving atherosclerosis and preventing and treating heart disease. At the same time, garlic also has a certain effect on lowering high blood pressure. Hypertensive patients eat several cloves of garlic soaked in vinegar every morning and drink two spoonfuls of vinegar juice, which can lower their blood pressure for half a month.
Experts say that eating garlic every day can sterilize and detoxify and prolong life. People who eat garlic regularly are nearly half less likely to develop gastric cancer than those who don't. In addition, people who eat more garlic have a very low risk of rectal cancer.
Raw food is better than cooked food.
Experts believe that garlic has such excellent efficacy because it contains alliin and alliinase. Allicin and alliinase each stay quietly in the cells of fresh garlic. Once garlic is crushed, they will contact each other, thus forming a colorless oily liquid-allicin. Allicin has a strong bactericidal effect. After it enters the human body, it can react with cystine of bacteria to produce crystal precipitation, which makes the metabolism of bacteria disordered and thus unable to reproduce and grow.
However, allicin will soon fail when it is heated, so garlic is suitable for raw food. Garlic is not only afraid of heat, but also of salt, which will lose its function.
Therefore, it is best to mash garlic instead of cutting it into minced garlic with a knife. And leave it for 10- 15 minutes to allow alliin and alliinase to combine in the air to generate allicin before eating.
In addition, garlic can be mixed with meat stuffing to make spring rolls, patties, wonton and so on. It can also be made into garlic braised pork and garlic bread.
There are garlic ice cream, garlic jam and garlic shochu in Germany, which are not only healthy but also delicious.
Garlic oil extracted from allicin has high health care value, which can be coated on bread and used as edible oil.
The more you eat, the better.
Experts also pointed out that eating garlic is not as much as possible. Because eating too much garlic will affect the absorption of vitamin B, eating a lot of garlic will also irritate the eyes, which is easy to cause blepharitis and conjunctivitis. Besides, garlic should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Patients with gastric ulcer and those with headache, cough and toothache should not eat garlic. Take/kloc-0 once a day or/kloc-0 once every other day, and take 2-3 capsules each time.
Many people don't eat garlic because they are afraid that the taste in their mouths will be heavier after eating it, which will affect communication with others. In fact, drinking a cup of coffee, milk or green tea after eating garlic can play a role in eliminating breath. You can also chew some green tea for better effect. Prepare some chewing gum at ordinary times, or use it after eating garlic.