Garlic is scientifically known as Allium sativum. It is a vegetable native to Asia and belongs to the same family as onions: the lily family. For many people, this vegetable is an essential ingredient in their diet. Furthermore, garlic is considered one of the healthiest foods.
It has been used as a condiment since ancient times. There is evidence that the Egyptians consumed it around 6,000 years ago. Furthermore, its culinary and medicinal properties were praised by the Greeks.
Garlic
It is also known that medieval monks chewed garlic cloves to protect themselves from the plague; and that during the two great world wars, due to the shortage of antibiotics, garlic was used to prevent wound infections.
The healing and preventive power of garlic
This vegetable’s fame is due to the fact that it represents an excellent natural alternative to pharmaceuticals; this is possible thanks to the presence of sulfur-rich antioxidants, such as alliin.
This substance, the one I mentioned earlier, has no odor, but when it comes into contact with oxygen in the air, it transforms into allicin, which is responsible for its distinctive, pungent odor. Similarly, allicin is converted into other sulfur compounds with therapeutic properties.
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