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What is garlic sprout?
Garlic seedlings, also known as green garlic (garlic yellow when not seen). Good quality garlic seedlings should be fresh and tender, with a plant height of about 35 cm, light green leaves, no yellow rot, white hairy roots and strong spicy taste.

Garlic seedlings are garlic seedlings that have developed to a certain period. It grows in farmland and has the spicy taste of garlic. It is eaten with its tender garlic leaves and leaf sheaths. Garlic seedlings are rich in vitamin C, protein, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin and other nutrients. Its spicy taste mainly comes from capsaicin, which has the function of promoting digestion and resolving stagnation. In addition, eating garlic seedlings can also effectively prevent diseases caused by environmental pollution such as influenza and enteritis. Garlic seedlings have a certain protective effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which can prevent thrombosis and protect the liver. It can grow anywhere with high yield and good quality. For example, large-scale planting in Linyi, Shandong Province has considerable economic benefits.

The reason why garlic seedlings are difficult to clean is mainly because of their rough appearance.

Moreover, the skin is so thin that it breaks when washed.

So many people simply use water to eat in order to save trouble. In fact, garlic seedlings belong to herbaceous plants, the plants are relatively low, the fruits are tender and juicy, and they are vulnerable to diseases, pests and microorganisms. Therefore, in the process of planting garlic seedlings, pesticides should be used frequently. These pesticides, fertilizers and germs easily attach to the rough surface of garlic seedlings. If not cleaned, it may lead to diarrhea and even pesticide poisoning. To clean garlic seedlings, it is best to rinse them continuously with tap water. Flowing water can prevent pesticides from infiltrating into fruits.

Garlic seedlings contain capsaicin, and its bactericidal ability can reach110 of penicillin. It has a good killing effect on pathogenic bacteria and parasites, and can prevent influenza, prevent wound infection, treat infectious diseases and repel insects. Garlic seedling is a turquoise seedling of garlic, and its tender garlic leaves and leaf sheaths are used for eating. Garlic yellow is cultivated under the conditions of no sunlight, suitable temperature and humidity. Garlic seedlings are the flower stems of garlic. Garlic seedlings have obvious effects of reducing blood lipid, preventing coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and preventing thrombosis. It can protect the liver, induce the activity of liver cell detoxification enzymes, and block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens, thus preventing the occurrence of cancer. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, garlic seedlings have the functions of dispelling cold, relieving swelling and pain, detoxicating and strengthening spleen and stomach. Garlic seedlings have a certain protective effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which can prevent thrombosis, protect the liver, induce the activity of liver cell detoxification enzymes, block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens and play a certain role in preventing cancer.