Core tip: Traditional Chinese food - Northerners use vinegar and sugar to pickle Laba garlic during the Laba Festival. The finished garlic is light green and tastes both sweet and sour, which can relieve dry mouth and increase appetite. Garlic is rich in vitamins, which combined with acetic acid are good for health.

In fact, women don’t like garlic very much. The smell of garlic is strong and unpleasant, and they still have bad breath after eating it, which is very embarrassing. However, some garlic is added to many dishes to stir-fry the whole flavor, and many people don’t know that garlic is an ancient medicinal and food treasure, and is known as the "health protector" abroad.

There are two major benefits of eating garlic

Garlic does have many health-care functions. First of all, the allicin contained in garlic is a powerful killer of bacteria, and has inhibitory and killing effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, etc. It can be used to treat and prevent bacterial dysentery, whooping cough and other diseases.

Garlic is also good news for patients with hyperlipidemia. After eating high-fat foods such as sausages and bacon, the fat in the blood will increase exponentially. If you eat garlic at the same time, the rising trend of fat will be inhibited.

How to eat garlic to kill bacteria?

The first step: Eat raw to kill bacteria: The reason why garlic has such excellent effects, Li Changping, deputy director nutritionist of the Nutrition Office of Beijing Hospital, explained: "It is because it contains alliin and alliinase. Once garlic is crushed, they will contact each other to form allicin. Allicin has a strong bactericidal effect, but allicin loses its effect quickly when exposed to heat, so eating raw garlic is more sterilizing than cooked garlic. The effect is good."